Pragmatism as Post-Postmodernism : Lessons from John Dewey / Larry A. Hickman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hickman, Larry A., Author.

, NEH/Mellon Humanities Open Book Grant, Author.

Series:

American philosophy series.

American Philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dewey, John, 1859-1952.

Dewey, John.

Pragmatism.

Postmodernism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 284 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

LaVergne : Fordham University Press, 2019.

New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Hickman Larry A. : Larry A. Hickman is director of the Center for Dewey Studies and Professor of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.Larry A. Hickman is director of the Center for Dewey Studies and Professor of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.

Summary:

Larry A. Hickman presents John Dewey as very much at home in the busy mix of contemporary philosophy—as a thinker whose work now, more than fifty years after his death, still furnishes fresh insights into cutting-edge philosophical debates. Hickman argues that it is precisely the rich, pluralistic mix of contemporary philosophical discourse, with its competing research programs in French-inspired postmodernism, phenomenology, Critical Theory, Heidegger studies, analytic philosophy, and neopragmatism—all busily engaging, challenging, and informing one another—that invites renewed examination of Dewey’s central ideas.Hickman offers a Dewey who both anticipated some of the central insights of French-inspired postmodernism and, if he were alive today, would certainly be one of its most committed critics, a Dewey who foresaw some of the most trenchant problems associated with fostering global citizenship, and a Dewey whose core ideas are often at odds with those of some of his most ardent neopragmatist interpreters.In the trio of essays that launch this book, Dewey is an observer and critic of some of the central features of French-inspired postmodernism and its American cousin, neopragmatism. In the next four, Dewey enters into dialogue with contemporary critics of technology, including Jürgen Habermas, Andrew Feenberg, and Albert Borgmann. The next two essays establish Dewey as an environmental philosopher of the first rank—a worthy conversation partner for Holmes Ralston, III, Baird Callicott, Bryan G. Norton, and Aldo Leopold. The concluding essays provide novel interpretations of Dewey’s views of religious belief, the psychology of habit, philosophical anthropology, and what he termed “the epistemology industry.”

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 Classical Pragmatism

2 Pragmatism, Postmodernism, and Global Citizenship

3 Classical Pragmatism, Postmodernism, and Neopragmatism

4 Classical Pragmatism and Communicative Action

5 From Critical Theory to Pragmatism

6 A Neo-Heideggerian Critique of Technology

7 Doing and Making in a Democracy

8 Nature as Culture: John Dewey and Aldo Leopold

9 Green Pragmatism

10 What Was Dewey’s Magic Number?

11 Cultivating a Common Faith

12 Beyond the Epistemology Industry

13 The Homo Faber Debate in Dewey and Max Scheler

14 Productive Pragmatism: Habits as Artifacts in Peirce and Dewey

Notes

Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-8232-8516-2

OCLC:

1178768827