The revival of pragmatism : new essays on social thought, law, and culture / edited by Morris Dickstein.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dickstein, Morris.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Post-Contemporary Interventions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pragmatism.

Social sciences--Philosophy.

Social sciences.

Culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (466 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An assessment, by a distinguished panel of experts, on the impact of pragmatism on contemporary thought.

Contents:

Introduction: Pragmatism Then and Now (Morris Dickstein)

WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES PRAGMATISM MAKE? THE VIEW FROM PHILOSOPHY

Pragmatism as Romantic Polytheism (Richard Rorty)

Pragmatism and Realism (Hilary Putnam)

Response to Hilary Putnam's "Pragmatism and Realism" (Sidney Morgenbesser)

The Moral Impulse (Ruth Anna Putnam)

What's the Use of Calling Emerson a Pragmatist? (Stanley Cavell)

PRAGMATISM AND THE REMAKING OF SOCIAL THOUGHT

Pragmatism: An Old Name for Some New Ways of Thinking? (James T. Kloppenberg)

Pragmatism and Democracy: Reconstructing the Logic of John Dewey's Faith (Robert B. Westbrook)

Community in the Pragmatic Tradition (Richard J. Bernstein)

Another Pragmatism: Alain Locke, Critical "Race" Theory, and the Politics of Culture (Nancy Fraser)

Going Astray, Going Forward: Du Boisian Pragmatism and Its Lineage (Ross Posnock)

The Inspiration of Pragmatism: Some Personal Remarks (Hans Joas)

The Missing Pragmatic Revival in American Social Science (Alan Wolfe)

Pragmatism and Its Limits (John Patrick Diggins)

PRAGMATISM AND LAW

Pragmatic Adjudication (Richard A. Posner)

Freestanding Legal Pragmatism (Thomas C. Grey)

What's Pragmatic about Legal Pragmatism? (David Luban)

Pragmatism and Law: A Response to David Luban (Richard Rorty)

It's a Positivist, It's a Pragmatist, It's a Codifier! Reflections on Nietzsche and Stendhal (Richard H. Weisberg)

Pragmatism, Pluralism, and Legal Interpretation: Posner's and Rorty's Justice without Metaphysics Meets Hate Speech (Michel Rosenfeld)

PRAGMATISM, CULTURE, AND ART

Why Do Pragmatists Want to Be Like Poets? (Richard Poirier)

Pragmatists and Poets: A Response to Richard Poirier (Louis Menand)

The Novelist of Everyday Life (David Bromwich)

When Mind Is a Verb: Thomas Eakins and the Work of Doing (Ray Carney)

Religion and the Recent Revival of Pragmatism (Giles Gunn)

AFTERWORD

Truth and Toilets: Pragmatism and the Practices of Life (Stanley Fish)

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 435-440) and index.

ISBN:

1-283-06280-1

9786613062802

0-8223-8252-0

OCLC:

213455206