Offers a pragmatically oriented reconstruction of the central issues of time.
Focusing on the issue of temporality, this book explores the assumptions guiding the frameworks of philosophers who have shaped the contours of the contemporary philosophical landscape, including Whitehead, Weiss, Derrida, McTaggart, and Heidegger. In the process, it remaps the terrain, often finding similarities where differences--some quite radical--are gen...(Read More)
"I am impressed with the author's adept way of interweaving the diverse threads of Peirce's thought into a coherent thesis: underlying Peirce's idealism, realism, anti-nominalism, phenomenology, metaphysical categories is a commitment to pluralism. This is both an interesting and original way to address Peirce's philosophy." -- Carl R. Hausman, Penn State
"I like the force and subtlety with which Rosenthal makes her case for Peirce's pragma...(Read More)
Mead and Merleau-Ponty
(October 1991)
Toward A Common Vision Sandra B. Rosenthal - Author Patrick L. Bourgeois - Author
"The authors delineate the distinctive strengths of Mead the pragmatist and Merleau-Ponty the existential phenomenologist and then trace the ways in which they mutually reinforce each other. Through this technique in chapter after chapter they analyze important points in the philosophy of the two thinkers in new and fruitful fashion."--Lewis E. Hahn, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
