6. Self-Concept in the New Sociology of Ideas: Reflections on Neil Gross’s Richard Rorty: The Making of an American Philosopher

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I: Transcendence and Self-Determination
6. 1. Don’t Fence Me In: Rorty and Sartre 13
7. 2. On Freedom and Action: Dewey and Sartre 27
8. 3. A (neo) American in Paris: Bourdieu and Mead 49
9. Part II: Cosmopolitanism and Transcendence
10. 4. Mead on Cosmopolitanism, Sympathy, and War 71
11. 5. W. E. B. Du Bois: Double-Consciousness, Jamesian Sympathy, and the Cosmopolitan 89
12. Part III: Sociological and Psychological Challenges to Transcendence 103
13. 6. Self-Concept in the New Sociology of Ideas: Reflections on Neil Gross’s Richard Rorty: The Making of an American Philosopher 105
14. 7. Eros and Self-Determination 124
15. 8. What If Hegel’s Master and Slave Were Women? 136
16. Notes 157
17. Bibliography 187
18. Index 193