Download e-book for iPad: The Revival of Pragmatism: New Essays on Social Thought, by Morris Dickstein,Richard Rorty,Hilary Putnam

Although lengthy thought of the main exact American contribution to philosophy, pragmatism—with its problem-solving emphasis and its contingent view of truth—lost attractiveness in mid-century after the arrival of worldwide conflict II, the horror of the Holocaust, and the dawning of the chilly warfare. because the Nineteen Sixties, notwithstanding, pragmatism in lots of guises has back won prominence, discovering congenial areas to flourish inside of starting to be highbrow activities. This quantity of recent essays brings jointly top philosophers, historians, felony students, social thinkers, and literary critics to envision the far-reaching results of this revival.
As the twenty-five intellectuals who participate in this dialogue express, pragmatism has turn into a fancy terrain on which a wealthy number of modern debates were performed out. individuals equivalent to Richard Rorty, Stanley Cavell, Nancy Fraser, Robert Westbrook, Hilary Putnam, and Morris Dickstein hint pragmatism’s cultural and highbrow evolution, ponder its connection to democracy, and speak about its advanced courting to the paintings of Emerson, Nietzsche, and Wittgenstein. They express the effect of pragmatism on black intellectuals reminiscent of W. E. B. Du Bois, discover its view of poetic language, and debate its results on social technology, historical past, and jurisprudence. additionally together with essays via critics of the revival resembling Alan Wolfe and John Patrick Diggins, the quantity concludes with a reaction to the entire assortment from Stanley Fish.
Including an in depth bibliography, this interdisciplinary paintings offers an in-depth and widely gauged creation to pragmatism, person who could be the most important for knowing the form of the modifications occurring within the American social and philosophical scene on the finish of the 20th century.

Contributors. Richard Bernstein, David Bromwich, Ray Carney, Stanley Cavell, Morris Dickstein, John Patrick Diggins, Stanley Fish, Nancy Fraser, Thomas C. gray, Giles Gunn, Hans Joas, James T. Kloppenberg, David Luban, Louis Menand, Sidney Morgenbesser, Richard Poirier, Richard A. Posner, Ross Posnock, Hilary Putnam, Ruth Anna Putnam, Richard Rorty, Michel Rosenfeld, Richard H. Weisberg, Robert B. Westbrook, Alan Wolfe