Transcendence

by Aboulafia, Mitchell

• ISBN13: 9780804770200
• ISBN10: 0804770204
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-07-14
• Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr

Summary

Notions of self-determination have been central to politics for almost two centuries, yet the relationship between the self-determination of individuals and peoples has not been adequately addressed. Nor have these forms of self-determination been adequately allied to cosmopolitanism. Transcendence seeks to rectify this. It offers an original theory of self and society that relates self-determination, of both individuals and peoples, to cosmopolitanism. To this end, the book highlights affinities between existentialism and pragmatism, traditions whose similarities have been insufficiently explored, and it provides comparative studies of figures central to these traditions.

Author Biography

Mitchell Aboulafia is Director of Interdivisional Liberal Arts and Professor of Liberal Arts and Philosophy at The Juilliard School. His most recent book is The Cosmopolitan Self: George Herbert Mead and Continental Philosophy (2001).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Transcendence And Self-Determination
Don't Fence Me In: Rorty and Sartre	p. 13
On Freedom and Action: Dewey and Sartre	p. 27
A (neo) American in Paris: Bourdieu and Mead	p. 49
Cosmopolitanism And Transcendence
Mead on Cosmopolitanism, Sympathy, and War	p. 71
W. E. B. Du Bois: Double-Consciousness, Jamesian Sympathy, and the Cosmopolitan	p. 89
Sociological And Psychological Challenges to Transcendence
Self-Concept in the New Sociology of Ideas: Reflections on Neil Gross's Richard Rorty: The Making of an American Philosopher	p. 105
Eros and Self-Determination	p. 124
What If Hegel's Master and Slave Were Women?	p. 136
Notes	p. 157
Bibligraphy	p. 187
Index	p. 193
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