Ebook: Violence

Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Section I Pragmatism and Its History; 1 The Romance of Philosophy; 2 The Pragmatic Turn; 3 Richard Rorty: 'So Much the Worse for Your Old Intuitions, Start Working Up Some New Ones'; 4 John Dewey's Encounter with Leon Trotsky; Section II Democracy and Pluralism; 5 The Spectre Haunting Multiculturalism; 6 Cultural Pluralism; 7 Charles Taylor's Engaged Pluralism; 8 Democratic Hope; 9 The Normative Core of the Public Sphere; Section III Critique in Dark Times; 10 Herbert Marcuse's Critical Legacy.