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9780674023543

The Self Awakened

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  • ISBN13:

    9780674023543

  • ISBN10:

    0674023544

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2007-02-28
  • Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr
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Summary

In what kind of world and for what kind of thought is time real, history open, and novelty possible? In what kind of world and for what kind of thought does it make sense for a human being to look for trouble rather than to stay out of trouble?In this long-awaited work of general philosophy, Roberto Mangabeira Unger proposes a radical reorientation of established ideas about nature, mind, society, politics, and religion. He shows how we have to change our beliefs if we are to succeed in doing justice to our most distinctive contemporary experiences, discoveries, and ideals.The Self Awakened mobilizes the resources of several philosophical traditions, and develops the unrecognized revolutionary implications of the most influential of these traditions today--pragmatism. Avoiding technical jargon and needless complication, this book makes a case for philosophy as the supreme activity of the intellect at war, insisting on its power to deal with what matters most.

Table of Contents

The Philosophy of the Age Rejected Options The Perennial Philosophy and Its Enemy Pragmatism Reclaimed
Pragmatism As a Starting Point
Three Ideas of the Pragmatists
Central Themes: Agency, Contingency, Futurity, Experimentalism
Two Misreadings of Pragmatism
Pragmatist Insights and American Mistakes The Core Conception: Constraint, Incompleteness, Resistance, Reinvention
A Conception of Humanity
Four Elements of the Conception
Philosophical Attitudes Associated With These Ideas
Time and Experience: Antinomies of the Impersonal
The Source of the Antinomies
The Antinomy of Time
The Antinomy of Objectivity The Reality of Time: the Transformation of Transformation
The Reality of Time
The Thesis That Time Is the Transformation of Transformation
The Thesis That Time Holds Sway Over Everything
The Thesis That There Is No Closed Horizon of Possible Worlds
The Thesis That Mathematics Is a Trojan Horse Within the Mind Against the Recognition of Time
The Thesis That Human Experience Has an Inescapable Temporal Structure
Self-Consciousness: Humanity Imagined
The Imagination Disarmed in the Social Sciences and Humanities: Rationalization, Humanization, and Escapism
Self-Consciousness Redirected
An Initial View of the Mind
The Initial View Developed By Contrast
The Two Sides of the Mind
From the Conception of the Mind to the Marking of a Direction
What Then Should We Do?
Conception and Orientation
The Indifference of Nature: False Escape
Will and Imagination
The Manifest World and Hidden Reality
The Conflict Between the Enabling Requirements of Self-Possession
Self and Character
Historical and Biographical Time
The Prophecies of Art Society: the Perpetual Invention of the Future Politics: Democracy As Anti-Fate A Moment of Reform: the Reinvention of Social Democracy Religion: the Self Awakened
The Problems of Connection and Transcendence Restated
How We Encounter These Problems in the Course of a Life
Existential Options
The Two Awakenings of the Self
Demands of the Second Awakening Philosophy: Beyond Super-Science and Self-Help First Digression: Nature in Its Place
Second Digression: the Universal Grid of Philosophy
Proper Name Index
Thematic Index
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