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Beyond Solidarity Pragmatism and Difference in a Globalized World Softcover - 2001 - 1st Edition
by Giles Gunn
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- Title Beyond Solidarity Pragmatism and Difference in a Globalized World
- Author Giles Gunn
- Binding Softcover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Condition Used - Near Fine
- Pages 224
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University Of Chicago Press, Chicago
- Date June 1, 2001
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # 001-1598
- ISBN 9780226310640 / 0226310647
- Weight 0.79 lbs (0.36 kg)
- Dimensions 9.01 x 6.05 x 0.6 in (22.89 x 15.37 x 1.52 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Ethics, Globalization - Moral and ethical aspects
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00051219
- Dewey Decimal Code 144.3
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One of the many questions posed by the passage nearly a decade ago of the Columbus quincentenary had to do with the relationships among the various cultures that Columbus's voyage, or rather our reconstruction of its consequences, has bequeathed to us.
From the rear cover
Beyond Solidarity is an impassioned argument for a sharable morality in a world increasingly fractured along lines of difference. Giles Gunn asks how human solidarity can be reconceived when its expressions have become increasingly exceptionalist and outmoded, and when the pressures of globalization divide as much as they unify.
He finds the terms for answering these questions in a more inclusive, cosmopolitan pragmatism--one willing to explore fundamental values without recourse to absolutist arguments. Drawing on the work of William and Henry James, John Dewey, Primo Levi, Richard Rorty, and many others, as well as postcolonial writing, Jewish literature of the Holocaust, and the cultural and religious experience of African Americans in slavery, Gunn points pragmatism in a transnational direction and shows how it can better account for the consequences of diversity. Beyond Solidarity, then, is a study of the difference that difference makes in a globalized world.
He finds the terms for answering these questions in a more inclusive, cosmopolitan pragmatism--one willing to explore fundamental values without recourse to absolutist arguments. Drawing on the work of William and Henry James, John Dewey, Primo Levi, Richard Rorty, and many others, as well as postcolonial writing, Jewish literature of the Holocaust, and the cultural and religious experience of African Americans in slavery, Gunn points pragmatism in a transnational direction and shows how it can better account for the consequences of diversity. Beyond Solidarity, then, is a study of the difference that difference makes in a globalized world.
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- Choice, 05/01/2002, Page 1599
