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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2010.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | American philosophy series (Unnumbered)
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| 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, do. |
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| Item Description: | Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 362 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780823235803 0823235807 9780823232970 0823232972 9780823249190 0823249190 9780823285280 0823285286 |