Pragmatism ascendent : a yard of narrative, a touch of prophecy / Joseph Margolis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Margolis, Joseph, 1924- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pragmatism--History.

Pragmatism.

History.

Philosophy, American.

Philosophy, European.

Analysis (Philosophy).

Continental philosophy.

Physical Description:

xi, 186 pages ; 18 cm

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2013.

Summary:

Pragmatism Ascendent is the last of four volumes on the contribution of pragmatism to American philosophy and Western philosophy as a whole. The quartet covers the period of American philosophy's greatest influence worldwide, from the second half of the 20th century through the beginning of the 21st. The fourth book provides an account of the way pragmatism reinterprets the revolutionary contributions of Kant and Hegel, the significance of pragmatism's original vision, and the expansion of classic pragmatism to incorporate the strongest themes of Hegelian and Darwinian sources. In the process, it addresses many topics either scanted or not addressed at all in most overviews of pragmatism's relevance today.

Noting the conceptual stalemate, confusion, and inertia of much of current Western philosophy, Margolis advances a new line of inquiry. He considers a fresh conception of the human agent as a hybrid artifact of enlanguaged culture, the decline of all forms of cognitive privilege, the pragmatist sense of the practical adequacy of philosophical solutions, and the possibilities for a recuperative convergence of the best resources of Western philosophy's most viable movements. Book jacket.

Contents:

The point of Hegel's dissatisfaction with Kant

Rethinking Peirce's fallibilism

Pragmatism's future : a touch of prophecy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780804782272

080478227X

9780804782289

0804782288

OCLC:

784708380