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Raynova, Yvanka B. (Hrsg.). Community, Praxis, and Values in a Postmetaphysical Age - Studies on Exclusion and Social Integration in Feminist Theory and Contemporary Philosophy. Axia Academic Publishers, 2015.
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Community, Praxis, and Values in a Postmetaphysical Age

Studies on Exclusion and Social Integration in Feminist Theory and Contemporary Philosophy
  • Axia Academic Publishers
  • 2015
  • Taschenbuch
  • 356 Seiten
  • ISBN 9783903068155
Herausgeber: Yvanka B. Raynova

The following volume is published on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the establishment of the Institute for Axiological Research in Vienna ¿ the first European Institute for the advanced philosophical and interdisciplinary study of values ¿ and is divided in two parts. The first one treats specific problems of women's struggle for rights, freedoms, and recognition, and moves successively to thematically broader methodological and hermeneutical approaches of the phenomena of exclusion and the possibilities of social integration, which are discussed in the second part. Although the defended positions of the essays in the present volume are different from those of Habermas, they should be

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conceived in relation to the main issues of what he calls the "the postmetaphysical age." Hence, the authors ask such core axiological questions as: How do we think today of community, praxis and values in front of the old and new problems of injustice, oppression and exclusion? How should we consider personal and group identity in the contexts of social and cultural diversity, of world view pluralism and incommensurable lifeworlds, lifestyles and values? Moreover, what is the meaning of the key concept of "European values," can it offer a real basis for integration or does it serve rather as a new form of "dictatorship" and exclusion of otherness?

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