The Politics of Survival: Peirce, Affectivity, and Social Criticism
Lara Trout
How can sincere, well-meaning people unintentionally perpetuate discrimination based on race, sex, sexuality, or other socio-political factors? To address this question, Lara Trout engages a neglected dimension of Charles S. Peirce's philosophy - human embodiment - in order to highlight the compatibility between Peirce's ideas and contemporary work in social criticism. This compatibility, which has been neglected in both Peircean and social criticism scholarship, emerges when the body is fore-grounded among the affective dimensions of Peirce's philosophy (including feeling, emotion, belief, doubt, instinct, and habit). Trout explains unintentional discrimination by situating Peircean affectivity within a post-Darwinian context, using the work ... Read more
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-Roger Ward Georgetown College "Examines what is termed a neglected element of embodiment in the philosophy of Charles Sanders Pierce." -The Chronicle of Higher Education "The Politics of Survival provides a lucid, compelling, and exceptionally accessible account of the relevance of Peirce and ... Read more