Zusammenfassung
Draws on the strengths of both American and continental philosophical traditions to engage pressing issues of public policy, university administration and the current state of philosophy. The real aim of this book, however, is to examine how philosophy can best help us think and live better lives.

Inhalt
Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 Thinking beyond the Twentieth Century: Democracy and Education after Liberalism; Chapter 2 The Defects of Liberalism: Lasting Elements of Negative Pragmatism; Chapter 3 Democracy as a Way of Life, Democracy in the Face of Terrorism; Chapter 4 Relevances, Realities, and Rat Races: Democracy as a; Personal; Way of Life; Chapter 5 From the Art of Surfaces to Control Societies and Beyond: Stoicism, Postmodernism, and Pan-Machinism; Chapter 6 From Consciousness of Doom to Criticism: Non-Dialectical Critical Theory; Chapter 7 Genealogy, Critique, and Transformation: In Our Time; Chapter 8 Power/Inquiry: Criticism and the Logic of Pragmatism; Chapter 9 Pragmatism, Pluralism, and the Future of Philosophy: Farewell to an Idea; Chapter 10 No Consolation: Life without Spirituality, Philosophy without Transcendence;