Values and Powers

”Skowroński is to be applauded for placing a wide range of pragmatic theorists within a clear thematic structure. … Pragmatism’s strength lies in its forward moving and flexible approach to questions of value, power, and philosophy. The challenge is always to slow that movement down so we can savor the moments of illumination. Skowroński’s book is an engaging, if ultimately tentative, attempt to do just that.” in: Philosophy in Review XXX (2010), No. 5

• AcknowledgementsPrefaceIntroduction: Values and Powers in a Philosophical ContextPart One: Proto-Pragmatic Approach to Values and PowersA Prelude to American Pragmatism. Transcendentalism as “The Power of Thought and Will”Charles S. Peirce’s Pragmaticism and the Revaluation of Thinking on Values and PowersPart Two: Pragmatic Approach to Values and PowersThe Axiology of Pragmatic Metaphysics. The Powers of Men in William JamesLoyalty to a Worthy Cause and Provincialism as “Saving Power” in Josiah RoyceJohn Dewey and the Might of Democratic ValuesDemocracy and Exclusion in Pragmatic Aesthetics (Dewey, Shusterman, Margolis)Evaluative Character of Social Interactions in George Herbert MeadRichard Rorty’s Liberal Democracy and the Limits of Cultural ImperialismPart Three: Quasi-Pragmatic Approach to Values and PowersPowers and Perfections in George Santayana’s Abulensean PragmatismFinal RemarksBibliographyAbout the AuthorIndex