Practicing Philosophy: Pragmatism and the Philosophical Life

Richard Shusterman

Routledge, 1997 - Philosophy - 256 pages

Applying contemporary pragmatism to the crucial question of how philosophy can help us live better, Shusterman develops his distinctive aesthetic model of philosophical living that includes politics, somatics, and ethnicity, while critically engaging the rival views of Dewey, Wittgenstein, and Foucault, as well as Rorty, Putnam, Goodman, Habermas, and Cavell.

About the author

Richard Shusterman is Professor of Philosophy at Temple University and Directeur de Programmes at the College International de Philosophie, Paris. His books include T. S. Eliot and the Philosophy of Criticism (1988), Analytic Aesthetics (1989), Sous l'interpretation (1994), and the much acclaimed and widely translated Pragmatist Aesthetics (1992).

Bibliographic information

• Title: Practicing Philosophy: Pragmatism and the Philosophical Life
• Author: Richard Shusterman
• Publisher: Routledge, 1997
• ISBN: 0415913942, 9780415913942
• Length: 256 pages
• Subjects: Philosophy / General; Philosophy / Methodology; Philosophy / Movements / Pragmatism