| Description |
1 online resource (xxxi, 356 pages : illustrations) |
| Contents |
Pragmatism, Spirituality and Society: An Introduction and an Invitation -- Correction to: Pragmatism, spirituality and society -- Part I. Pragmatism, Spirituality and Society: New Horizons of Theory and Practice -- Pragmatism and Spirituality: New Horizons of Theory and Practice and the Calling of Planetary Realizations -- Pragmatism, Geist and the Question of Form: From a Critical Theory Perspective -- Naturalistic Spirituality, Religious Naturalism, and Community Spirituality: A Broader Pragmatic View -- Pragmatism and the "Changing of the Earth": Unifying Moral Impulse, Creative Instinct, and democratic culture -- Towards Spiritual Pragmatics: Reflections from the Graveyards of Culture -- Mystical Pragmatics -- Pragmatism and Spirituality in Anthropological Aesthetics -- Part II. Pragmatism and Spirituality: Border-Crossing Adventures, Creative Experiments and New Pathways of Planetary Realizations -- Peirce’s Semiotic Pragmaticism and Buddhist Soteriology: Steps Towards Modelling "Thought Forms" of Signlessness -- Spiritual Pragmatism: William James, Sri Aurobindo and Global Philosophy -- William James’s Pragmatism and Some Aspects of Roman Catholic Teaching -- Gandhi, Hegel and Freedom: Aufhebungen, Pragmatism and Ideal Type Models -- Cosmopolitan Nationalism, Spirituality and Spaces in Rabindranath Tagore and Sri Aurobindo -- Thought of Mahatma Gandhi: A Path-Breaking Experience of Spiritual Pragmatism -- Pragmatism, Spirituality, and the Calling of a New Democracy: The Populist Challenge and Ambedkar’s Integration of Buddhism and Dewey |
| Summary |
This book explores further border crossing among pragmatism, spirituality and society. It opens up American pragmatism to dialogues with pragmatism and spiritual quest from other traditions such as India and China thus making contemporary pragmatism a part of much needed planetary conversations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed February 11, 2021) |
| Subject |
Pragmatism.
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Spirituality.
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pragmatism.
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Pragmatism
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Spirituality
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Giri, Ananta Kumar, editor
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| ISBN |
9811571023 |
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9789811571022 |
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