This book represents the reflections of scholars coming from varied disciplinary backgrounds who have found a conversation partner in pragmatism. The "conversations" recorded here demonstrate pragmatism's versatility and contemporary relevance. Whether it be rhetoric, literature, philosophy, religion, or social psychology, pragmatism provides the contributors fruitful insights into and methods of examining both practical and theoretical issues.
Contents:
John R. SHOOK: Editorial Foreword
PREFACE Jeffery GELLER & Paul CUSTODIO BUBE: On Conversations
ONE Peter CAUFIELD: Autobiographical Sketch. A Room in the Pragmatic Hotel: William James, Language, and Epistemology
TWO Susan ROSS: Autobiographical Sketch. Women's Rhetorical Style as an Alternative Vision of Democracy
THREE Richard CARSON: Autobiographical Sketch. "A Matter for Whispered Communications": The Bostonians, Pragmatism, and The Culture of Uncertainty
FOUR Luis E. WONG: Autobiographical Sketch. The Ethics of Dissensus : Literary Criticism in the Age of Relativism
FIVE Stuart ROSENBAUM: Autobiographical Sketch. Sustaining the Pragmatic Critique of Epistemology
SIX Zdenka KALNICKA: Autobiographical Sketch. Is the Problem of Interpretation Illegitimate for Pragmatism?
SEVEN Paul CUSTODIO BUBE: Autobiographical Sketch. Twin Children of Different Mothers: The Theologies of Gordon D. Kaufman and John B. Cobb, Jr.
EIGHT Jeffery GELLER: Autobiographical Sketch. The Thickness Unto Death: Kenneth Burke on the Mortification of Thought
NINE Ari SANTAS: Autobiographical Sketch. Some Consequences of Mead's Institutional Theory of the Self
INDEX
Contents:
John R. SHOOK: Editorial Foreword
PREFACE Jeffery GELLER & Paul CUSTODIO BUBE: On Conversations
ONE Peter CAUFIELD: Autobiographical Sketch. A Room in the Pragmatic Hotel: William James, Language, and Epistemology
TWO Susan ROSS: Autobiographical Sketch. Women's Rhetorical Style as an Alternative Vision of Democracy
THREE Richard CARSON: Autobiographical Sketch. "A Matter for Whispered Communications": The Bostonians, Pragmatism, and The Culture of Uncertainty
FOUR Luis E. WONG: Autobiographical Sketch. The Ethics of Dissensus : Literary Criticism in the Age of Relativism
FIVE Stuart ROSENBAUM: Autobiographical Sketch. Sustaining the Pragmatic Critique of Epistemology
SIX Zdenka KALNICKA: Autobiographical Sketch. Is the Problem of Interpretation Illegitimate for Pragmatism?
SEVEN Paul CUSTODIO BUBE: Autobiographical Sketch. Twin Children of Different Mothers: The Theologies of Gordon D. Kaufman and John B. Cobb, Jr.
EIGHT Jeffery GELLER: Autobiographical Sketch. The Thickness Unto Death: Kenneth Burke on the Mortification of Thought
NINE Ari SANTAS: Autobiographical Sketch. Some Consequences of Mead's Institutional Theory of the Self
INDEX