Don't fence me in: Rorty and Sartre -- On freedom and action: Dewey and Sartre -- A (neo) American in Paris: Bourdieu and Mead -- Mead on cosmopolitanism, sympathy, and war -- W.E.B. Du Bois: double-consciousness, Jamesian sympathy, and the cosmopolitan -- Self-concept in the new sociology of ideas: reflections on Neil Gross's Richard Rorty : the making of an American philosopher -- Eros and self-determination -- What if Hegel's master and slave were women?
Summary
Transcendence offers an original theory of self and society that reconciles philosophical and political commitments to self-determination, cultural pluralism, and cosmopolitanism
