The Politics of Survival : Peirce, Affectivity, and Social Criticism / Lara Trout.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: American philosophy series | Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: New York : Fordham University Press, 2010Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (304 pages)Content type:
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  • 9780823285280
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Contents:
Peircean affectivity -- The affectivity of cognition : Journal of speculative philosophy cognition series, 1868-69 -- The affectivity of inquiry : Popular science monthly illustrations of the logic of science series, 1877-78 -- The law of mind, association, and sympathy : Monist "cosmology series" and Association writings, 1890s -- Critical common-sensism, 1900s.
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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Peircean affectivity -- The affectivity of cognition : Journal of speculative philosophy cognition series, 1868-69 -- The affectivity of inquiry : Popular science monthly illustrations of the logic of science series, 1877-78 -- The law of mind, association, and sympathy : Monist "cosmology series" and Association writings, 1890s -- Critical common-sensism, 1900s.

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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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