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and Chance,' by a Nobel Prize-winning chemist and one of the founders of the 'new physics' of cha... more and Chance,' by a Nobel Prize-winning chemist and one of the founders of the 'new physics' of chaos, Ilya Prigogine, among the few modern theoreticians to have read Peirce. Prigogine showed how Peirce's view of time and the second law of thermodynamics anticipated the 'new physics' which derives order out of chaos by means of the idea that very small, chance differences can quickly create 'self-organized' largescale uniform effectsthat the physical world we perceive is characterized by extremely sensitive dependence on initial conditions, a fact which Peirce himself had pointed out," Brent, Charles S.
Social Science Research Network, Aug 19, 2009
But Voegelin's first book is illuminating, perhaps more so from the tone of the work than from an... more But Voegelin's first book is illuminating, perhaps more so from the tone of the work than from any claim or conclusion. Voegelin was clearly, as he would later formulate it, in a state of "questioning unrest," and his encounter with the "American mind" is a dramatic illustration of that questioning unrest. This is of more than simply biographical concern since it is precisely the identification of this questioning unrest-its evocation-and the explication of its structural features, including the poles of its tension, and its norms that constitute genuine philosophy and certainly the recovery of genuine philosophy in the face of the accumulated distortions of the intellectual tradition that has given us the sorry contemporary "climate of opinion" (to use Whitehead's description, which Voegelin often employs in a pejorative context). It is, therefore, quite instructive to focus, as does Clancy Smith, on the leading American pragmatists whom Voegelin encountered and whose thinking has crystallized a distinctly American approach to philosophy altogether different from the perspective Voegelin was used to in European culture. And indeed Smith has pinpointed a recurrent theme in Peirce, James, and Dewey that would effect a responsive cord in Voegelin, with his questioning unrest, and would evoke in him the powerful symbol of the "open soul."
Soundings: a journal of politics and culture, 2010
Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2010
dvanced industrial societies offer a wide array of amenities, pleasures and luxuries to complemen... more dvanced industrial societies offer a wide array of amenities, pleasures and luxuries to complement a technological substructure that has invigorated myriad advances in all walks of life. Yet, this substructure
My paper explores the American pragmatic tradition that inspired Voegelin's socio-historical ... more My paper explores the American pragmatic tradition that inspired Voegelin's socio-historical theories as represented in his "On the Form of the American Mind." I explore, primarily, Voegelin's conception of the American "open self" and how forms of this conception were manifest in C.S. Peirce's semiotics and phenomenology, in William James's pscyhology and in John Dewey's pedagogy and social psychology.
and ahistorical concept of reason which is at the heart of idealistic philosophy lends itself to ... more and ahistorical concept of reason which is at the heart of idealistic philosophy lends itself to all forms of ideology, but the bourgeois ideals, of cognitive and moral universalism on the one hand, of expressive subjectivism on the other, carry also utopian content which transcends the limits of false consciousness.” As Farr contends, this 937 Kellner, Lewis, and Pierce, On Marcuse: Critique, Liberation, and Reschooling in the Radical Pedagogy of Herbert Marcuse, Op. Cit., 10. 938 Farr, Critical Theory and Democratic Vision: Herbert Marcuse and Recent Liberation Philosophies, Op. Cit., 86. 939 Ibid., 77. 940 Habermas, “Psychic Thermidor and the Rebirth of Rebellious Subjectivity,” Op. Cit., 7.
Kritike: An Online Journal of Philosophy
I Ink, Therefore I Am, 2012
and Chance,' by a Nobel Prize-winning chemist and one of the founders of the 'new physics' of cha... more and Chance,' by a Nobel Prize-winning chemist and one of the founders of the 'new physics' of chaos, Ilya Prigogine, among the few modern theoreticians to have read Peirce. Prigogine showed how Peirce's view of time and the second law of thermodynamics anticipated the 'new physics' which derives order out of chaos by means of the idea that very small, chance differences can quickly create 'self-organized' largescale uniform effectsthat the physical world we perceive is characterized by extremely sensitive dependence on initial conditions, a fact which Peirce himself had pointed out," Brent, Charles S.
Social Science Research Network, Aug 19, 2009
But Voegelin's first book is illuminating, perhaps more so from the tone of the work than from an... more But Voegelin's first book is illuminating, perhaps more so from the tone of the work than from any claim or conclusion. Voegelin was clearly, as he would later formulate it, in a state of "questioning unrest," and his encounter with the "American mind" is a dramatic illustration of that questioning unrest. This is of more than simply biographical concern since it is precisely the identification of this questioning unrest-its evocation-and the explication of its structural features, including the poles of its tension, and its norms that constitute genuine philosophy and certainly the recovery of genuine philosophy in the face of the accumulated distortions of the intellectual tradition that has given us the sorry contemporary "climate of opinion" (to use Whitehead's description, which Voegelin often employs in a pejorative context). It is, therefore, quite instructive to focus, as does Clancy Smith, on the leading American pragmatists whom Voegelin encountered and whose thinking has crystallized a distinctly American approach to philosophy altogether different from the perspective Voegelin was used to in European culture. And indeed Smith has pinpointed a recurrent theme in Peirce, James, and Dewey that would effect a responsive cord in Voegelin, with his questioning unrest, and would evoke in him the powerful symbol of the "open soul."
Soundings: a journal of politics and culture, 2010
Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2010
dvanced industrial societies offer a wide array of amenities, pleasures and luxuries to complemen... more dvanced industrial societies offer a wide array of amenities, pleasures and luxuries to complement a technological substructure that has invigorated myriad advances in all walks of life. Yet, this substructure
My paper explores the American pragmatic tradition that inspired Voegelin's socio-historical ... more My paper explores the American pragmatic tradition that inspired Voegelin's socio-historical theories as represented in his "On the Form of the American Mind." I explore, primarily, Voegelin's conception of the American "open self" and how forms of this conception were manifest in C.S. Peirce's semiotics and phenomenology, in William James's pscyhology and in John Dewey's pedagogy and social psychology.
and ahistorical concept of reason which is at the heart of idealistic philosophy lends itself to ... more and ahistorical concept of reason which is at the heart of idealistic philosophy lends itself to all forms of ideology, but the bourgeois ideals, of cognitive and moral universalism on the one hand, of expressive subjectivism on the other, carry also utopian content which transcends the limits of false consciousness.” As Farr contends, this 937 Kellner, Lewis, and Pierce, On Marcuse: Critique, Liberation, and Reschooling in the Radical Pedagogy of Herbert Marcuse, Op. Cit., 10. 938 Farr, Critical Theory and Democratic Vision: Herbert Marcuse and Recent Liberation Philosophies, Op. Cit., 86. 939 Ibid., 77. 940 Habermas, “Psychic Thermidor and the Rebirth of Rebellious Subjectivity,” Op. Cit., 7.
Kritike: An Online Journal of Philosophy
I Ink, Therefore I Am, 2012