Pragmatism
From Progressivism to Postmodernism
Published on 30. January 1999
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368 pages
978-0-275-96524-2 (ISBN)
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American pragmatism can be best understood against the background of 20th-century American culture and politics. The essays in this volume, by philosophers, cultural critics, and historians, explore the development of pragmatism in this context. The emphasis in this volume is on the interrelations between the philosophical or foundational issues raised by pragmatism as a philosophical movement, and the cultural, political, and educational programs that have been associated with pragmatism from James, Dewey, and Mead to Rorty and Cornel West. The book is divided into three parts, reflecting the periods of Progressivism, Positivism, and Postmodernism. The contributors explore the ways in which pragmatist writings have been appropriated or misappropriated in the literature and practice of Progressive reformers, positivist academics, end-of-ideology liberals, and postmodernists.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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College/higher education
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Interest Age: From 7 to 17 years
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Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
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597 gr
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978-0-275-96524-2 (9780275965242)
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ROBERT HOLLINGER is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Iowa State University. He is the author of The Dark Side of Liberalism: Elitism vs. Democracy, and Postmodernism in the Social Sciences (both forthcoming), editor of Hermeneutics and Praxis (1985), and co-editor of Philosophy: The Basic Issues, 4th ed. (1993) and Introductory Readings in the Philosophy of Science 2d ed. (1988).
DAVID DEPEW is Professor of Philosophy, California State University at Fullerton. He is the author of the article Philosophy in America in the Twentieth Century, in Encyclopedia of United States History in the 20th Century (forthcoming), author (with Bruce Weber) of Darwinism Evolving: Systems Dynamics and the Genealogy of Natural Selection (1993), editor (with Bruce Weber) of Entropy, Information, and Evolution: New Perspectives on Physical and Biological Evolution (1988), and Evolution at a Crossroads: The New Biology and the New Philosophy of Science (1985), and editor of The Greeks and the Good Life (1981).
DAVID DEPEW is Professor of Philosophy, California State University at Fullerton. He is the author of the article Philosophy in America in the Twentieth Century, in Encyclopedia of United States History in the 20th Century (forthcoming), author (with Bruce Weber) of Darwinism Evolving: Systems Dynamics and the Genealogy of Natural Selection (1993), editor (with Bruce Weber) of Entropy, Information, and Evolution: New Perspectives on Physical and Biological Evolution (1988), and Evolution at a Crossroads: The New Biology and the New Philosophy of Science (1985), and editor of The Greeks and the Good Life (1981).
Content
General Introduction
Pragmatists and Progressives
Introduction by David Depew and Robert Hollinger
The Problem of Pragmatism in American History: A Look Back, and a Look Ahead by David A. Hollinger
William James and Richard Rorty: Context and Conversation by George Cotkin
Community Without Fusion: Dewey, Mead, Tufts by James Campbell
Pragmatism, Technology, and Scientism: Are the Methods of the Scientific-Technical Disciplines Relevant to Social Problems by Larry Hickman
The Perils of Personality: Lewis Mumford and Politics After Liberalism by Casey Nelson Blake
Pragmatism and Positivism
Introduction by David Depew
Fertile Ground: Pragmatism, Science, and Logical Positivism by Daniel J. Wilson
American Philosophy and Its Lost Public by Bruce Kuklick
James, Quine, and Analytic Pragmatism by Isaac Nevo
Vanishing Frontiers in American Philosophy: Two Dogmas of Idealism by Ralph W. Sleeper
The Decline of Evolutionary Naturalism in Later Pragmatism by Randall Auxier
Rorty's Pragmatism and the Linguistic Turn by Rickard Donovan
Pragmatism and the Postmodern Condition
Introduction by David Depew and Robert Hollinger
merican Pragmatism and the Humanist Traditions by Konstantine Kolenda
Postmodern Pragmatism: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida, and Rorty by Bernd Magnus
Richard Rorty's Romantic Pragmatism by Isaac Nevo
Pragmatism, Democracy, and the Imagination: Rethinking the Deweyan Legacy by Giles Gunn
Theory, Pragmatisms, and Politics by Cornel West
Selected Bibliography
Pragmatists and Progressives
Introduction by David Depew and Robert Hollinger
The Problem of Pragmatism in American History: A Look Back, and a Look Ahead by David A. Hollinger
William James and Richard Rorty: Context and Conversation by George Cotkin
Community Without Fusion: Dewey, Mead, Tufts by James Campbell
Pragmatism, Technology, and Scientism: Are the Methods of the Scientific-Technical Disciplines Relevant to Social Problems by Larry Hickman
The Perils of Personality: Lewis Mumford and Politics After Liberalism by Casey Nelson Blake
Pragmatism and Positivism
Introduction by David Depew
Fertile Ground: Pragmatism, Science, and Logical Positivism by Daniel J. Wilson
American Philosophy and Its Lost Public by Bruce Kuklick
James, Quine, and Analytic Pragmatism by Isaac Nevo
Vanishing Frontiers in American Philosophy: Two Dogmas of Idealism by Ralph W. Sleeper
The Decline of Evolutionary Naturalism in Later Pragmatism by Randall Auxier
Rorty's Pragmatism and the Linguistic Turn by Rickard Donovan
Pragmatism and the Postmodern Condition
Introduction by David Depew and Robert Hollinger
merican Pragmatism and the Humanist Traditions by Konstantine Kolenda
Postmodern Pragmatism: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida, and Rorty by Bernd Magnus
Richard Rorty's Romantic Pragmatism by Isaac Nevo
Pragmatism, Democracy, and the Imagination: Rethinking the Deweyan Legacy by Giles Gunn
Theory, Pragmatisms, and Politics by Cornel West
Selected Bibliography