The Last Conference: A Pragmatist Saga - Softcover

Pedersen, Arild

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8232103221 ISBN 13: 9788232103225

Verlag: Akademica Publishing, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

Once, philosophers like Plato and Kierkegaard combined narratives and logical arguments to engage both brain hemispheres, creating a kind of 'Gesamtphilosophy.' Nowadays, philosophers mostly communicate with their left hemisphere. In this novel, Gesamtphilosophy is restored in a spirit of pragmatism. It is the story of an inexperienced New York Times journalist who is sent to Reykjavik by his editor to cover a philosophy conference on experience, where he himself becomes experienced. During the conference, he reports from five presentations on views of experience: those of Timothy Williamson, John McDowell, Robert Brandom, Richard Rorty, and John Dewey, all representing increasingly complex theories. At the same time, he experiences what the theories say. He becomes a participant, rather than a mere reporter, and finds himself living a modern saga with striking similarities to a certain Old Norse saga. Dramatic events, involving love and a power struggle, are crowned by a volcanic eruption with fatal consequences, before he returns to New York as a very experienced man. *** ". . . Author Arild Pedersen clearly draws upon his many years of experience and expertise as a professor of philosophy at the University of Oslo (Norway) and his familiarity with old Norse saga traditions to craft a complex and engaging novel set in contemporary times. The result is a solid and original entertainment." - The Midwest Book Review, Small Press Bookwatch, The Fiction Shelf, May 2014Ã?Â?

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Arild Pedersen (b. 1946), Professor Emeritus in philosophy from the University of Oslo, has published books about the theory of the novel, about David Copperfield, and about the philosophy of music. He has also published a novel, and is active as a cultural politician and critic in the vein of Rorty and Dewey, writing columns and reviews in newspapers and periodicals for a general public.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Akademica Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 8232103221
• ISBN 13: 9788232103225
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 300
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