Lenart Škof is research counselor, associate professor of philosophy and religious studies, and Head of the Anthropology and Philosophy Departments at the University of Primorska.

This book eloquently argues and illustrates why pragmatism remains one of the most interesting and still promising philosophical traditions on the intellectual scene. Redolent of Rorty’s ebullient and generous readings, Škof shows how at the heart of pragmatism is a corporeal ethics of co-responsibility, a watchful attentiveness to the generative civic praxis of communities, and a solicitous hermeneutics that calls for an intercultural philosophy. Rorty’s proclamation of a post-philosophical culture is here translated in terms of an intercultural philosophy. This book also has the added virtue of excavating for us a fascinating genealogy that should make us more humble and reticent to bunt around anachronistic terms such as analytic and continental.

• IntroductionPart I. Towards New Intercultural Spaces of PragmatismChapter 1: Between Radical Empiricism and Intercultural PhilosophyChapter 2: Dewey and Intercultural PhilosophyChapter 3: Dewey and Unger in Context: Towards an Ethical Criterion for DemocracyChapter 4: Rorty and the Future of Intercultural PhilosophyPart II. Towards New Ethical Spaces of PragmatismChapter 5: Schopenhauer and American PragmatismChapter 6: On Rorty´s Ethics and Philosophy of ReligionChapter 7: On Unger and IrigarayChapter 8: Unger vs. Žižek: Pragmatism and the Limits of Emancipatory PoliticsConclusion

Lenart Škof is research counselor, associate professor of philosophy and religious studies, and Head of the Anthropology and Philosophy Departments at the University of Primorska.

This book eloquently argues and illustrates why pragmatism remains one of the most interesting and still promising philosophical traditions on the intellectual scene. Redolent of Rorty’s ebullient and generous readings, Škof shows how at the heart of pragmatism is a corporeal ethics of co-responsibility, a watchful attentiveness to the generative civic praxis of communities, and a solicitous hermeneutics that calls for an intercultural philosophy. Rorty’s proclamation of a post-philosophical culture is here translated in terms of an intercultural philosophy. This book also has the added virtue of excavating for us a fascinating genealogy that should make us more humble and reticent to bunt around anachronistic terms such as analytic and continental.

• IntroductionPart I. Towards New Intercultural Spaces of PragmatismChapter 1: Between Radical Empiricism and Intercultural PhilosophyChapter 2: Dewey and Intercultural PhilosophyChapter 3: Dewey and Unger in Context: Towards an Ethical Criterion for DemocracyChapter 4: Rorty and the Future of Intercultural PhilosophyPart II. Towards New Ethical Spaces of PragmatismChapter 5: Schopenhauer and American PragmatismChapter 6: On Rorty´s Ethics and Philosophy of ReligionChapter 7: On Unger and IrigarayChapter 8: Unger vs. Žižek: Pragmatism and the Limits of Emancipatory PoliticsConclusion