John Lachs, The Cost of Comfort

John Lachs tells us in the short “Preface” to his latest book that in an earlier work, “Intermediate Man, a book I wrote some years ago,” (1981) he “presented similar ideas. But this book is significantly different from the earlier. It covers more topics and makes, I hope, a more compelling case fo...

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Publicado no:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ejpap,
Autor principal: Padrón, Charles
Formato: Article ou chapitre numérique
Idioma:Anglais
Publicado em: European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy 2020
Acesso em linha:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Resumo:John Lachs tells us in the short “Preface” to his latest book that in an earlier work, “Intermediate Man, a book I wrote some years ago,” (1981) he “presented similar ideas. But this book is significantly different from the earlier. It covers more topics and makes, I hope, a more compelling case for my analysis” (p. vii). He goes on to state that in The Cost of Comfort one can find his analysis of contemporary life a “testable form,” given over to an invitation to experiment (similar to anot...