The politics of survival Peirce, affectivity, and social criticism

How can sincere, well-meaning people unintentionally perpetuate discrimination based on race, sex, sexuality, or other socio-political factors? To address this question, Lara Trout engages a neglected dimension of Charles S. Peirce's philosophy - human embodiment - in order to highlight the com...

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Main Author: Trout, Lara (-)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ashland, Ohio : London : Fordham University Press ; Eurospan [distributor] 2010.
Edition:1st ed
Series:American philosophy.
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Summary:How can sincere, well-meaning people unintentionally perpetuate discrimination based on race, sex, sexuality, or other socio-political factors? To address this question, Lara Trout engages a neglected dimension of Charles S. Peirce's philosophy - human embodiment - in order to highlight the compatibility between Peirce's ideas and contemporary work in social criticism. This compatibility, which has been neglected in both Peircean and social criticism scholarship, emerges when the body is fore-grounded among the affective dimensions of Peirce's philosophy (including feeling, emotion, belief
Item Description:Description based upon print version of record.
Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780823235803
9780823232970