Joan Richardson is Professor of English, Comparative Literature, American Studies, and Liberal Studies at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is the recipient of a 2012 Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Humanities Senior Fellowship and a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship. Her book, A Natural History of Pragmatism: The Fact of Feeling from Jonathan Edwards to Gertrude Stein, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2007 and nominated for the 2011 Grawemeyer Award in Religion.
1. Introduction: thirteen ways of looking at pragmatism
2. Context: William James, into the cosmic weather
3. Method: Charles Sanders Pierce, the call of the wild
4. Purpose: John Dewey, the conduct of life
5. Effects 1: Stanley Cavell, squaring the circle: transcendentalist pragmatism
6. Effects 2: Richard Rorty, sea change and/or ironic scraping
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