Susan Dieleman, David Rondel, and Christopher Voparil (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780190459239
- eISBN:
- 9780190459260
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190459239.001.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind
Pragmatism and Justice is an interdisciplinary volume of new and seminal essays by political philosophers, social theorists, and scholars of pragmatism. The essays that comprise Pragmatism and ...
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Pragmatism and Justice is an interdisciplinary volume of new and seminal essays by political philosophers, social theorists, and scholars of pragmatism. The essays that comprise Pragmatism and Justice explore how the tradition of American pragmatist thought provides resources for understanding more clearly the idea of justice and for responding more efficaciously to a world rife with injustice. Treating both major canonical figures, like Peirce, James, Dewey, Holmes, Addams, Mead, and Royce, and more recently recognized perspectives, including W.E.B. Du Bois, Anna Julia Cooper, Alain Locke, and Mary Parker Follett, essays in the volume investigate the implications of a pragmatist methodological orientation to justice, explore how pragmatism’s special tools can be put in the service of overcoming oppression, and reflect on the encounter between pragmatism and some central debates in liberal and democratic theory.Less
Pragmatism and Justice is an interdisciplinary volume of new and seminal essays by political philosophers, social theorists, and scholars of pragmatism. The essays that comprise Pragmatism and Justice explore how the tradition of American pragmatist thought provides resources for understanding more clearly the idea of justice and for responding more efficaciously to a world rife with injustice. Treating both major canonical figures, like Peirce, James, Dewey, Holmes, Addams, Mead, and Royce, and more recently recognized perspectives, including W.E.B. Du Bois, Anna Julia Cooper, Alain Locke, and Mary Parker Follett, essays in the volume investigate the implications of a pragmatist methodological orientation to justice, explore how pragmatism’s special tools can be put in the service of overcoming oppression, and reflect on the encounter between pragmatism and some central debates in liberal and democratic theory.
Kristin Waters
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- May 2022
- ISBN:
- 9781496836748
- eISBN:
- 9781496836731
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496836748.003.0017
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Gender Studies
In this chapter, Waters identifies a first wave of African American organized resistance and the beginning of a more interracial movement often reductively perceived as white. This chapter examines ...
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In this chapter, Waters identifies a first wave of African American organized resistance and the beginning of a more interracial movement often reductively perceived as white. This chapter examines the ideas that came out of the early part of this wave of activism: particular concepts of freedom, equality, property, individualism, community, and the social contract, from the first rumblings of the Age of Revolution. This chapter and the next ones explore major writers and components of classic liberal theory: concepts of freedom, equality, social contract, property, individualism, capitalism, and independence, but the connections with the birth of liberalism should in no way preclude a critique of this theory from other conceptual perspectives. Waters also discusses the overarching theory of Black revolutionary liberalism derived from Enlightenment ideals that in hands of Black theorists were converted from an ideology that had chattel slavery at its base to one of human flourishing for all humankind.Less
In this chapter, Waters identifies a first wave of African American organized resistance and the beginning of a more interracial movement often reductively perceived as white. This chapter examines the ideas that came out of the early part of this wave of activism: particular concepts of freedom, equality, property, individualism, community, and the social contract, from the first rumblings of the Age of Revolution. This chapter and the next ones explore major writers and components of classic liberal theory: concepts of freedom, equality, social contract, property, individualism, capitalism, and independence, but the connections with the birth of liberalism should in no way preclude a critique of this theory from other conceptual perspectives. Waters also discusses the overarching theory of Black revolutionary liberalism derived from Enlightenment ideals that in hands of Black theorists were converted from an ideology that had chattel slavery at its base to one of human flourishing for all humankind.
