Chris Voparil

Reconstructing Pragmatism (eBook, PDF)

Richard Rorty and the Classical Pragmatists

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Produktbeschreibung

The figure of Richard Rorty stands in complex relation to the tradition of American pragmatism. On the one hand, his intellectual creativity, lively prose, and bridge-building fueled the contemporary resurgence of pragmatism. On the other, his polemical claims and selective interpretations function as a negative, fixed pole against which thinkers of all stripes define themselves. Virtually all pragmatists on the contemporary scene, whether classical or "new," Deweyan, Jamesian, or Peircean, use Rorty as a foil to justify their positions. The resulting internecine quarrels and divisions threaten to fragment and thwart the tradition's creative potential. More caricatured than understood, the specter of Rorty continues to block the road of inquiry and future development of pragmatism. Reconstructing Pragmatism moves beyond the Rortyan impasse by providing what has been missing for decades: a constructive, non-polemical account of Rorty's relation to classical pragmatism. The first book-length treatment of Rorty's intellectual debt to the early pragmatists, the volume establishes his selective appropriations not as misunderstandings or distortions but a sustained, intentional effort to reconstruct their thinking. Featuring chapters devoted to five key pragmatist thinkers--Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, John Dewey, Josiah Royce, and Jane Addams--the book draws on archival sources and the full scope of Rorty's writings to challenge prevailing misconceptions and caricatures. By elaborating Rorty's still largely untapped reconstructive resources, the book reveals limitations in predominant views of the classical pragmatists in current debates and opens up new modes of understanding pragmatism and why it matters today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780197605738
• Artikelnr.: 63038903

Autorenporträt

Chris Voparil is on the Graduate Faculty of Union Institute & University, where he teaches philosophy and political theory. He is author of Richard Rorty: Politics and Vision (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006) and co-editor of Pragmatism and Justice (Oxford University Press, 2017) and several collections of Rorty's work, including What Can We Hope For? Essays on Politics (Princeton University Press, 2022), On Philosophers and Philosophy: Unpublished Papers, 1960-2000 (Cambridge University Press, 2020), and The Rorty Reader (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), in addition to articles on pragmatism.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction: Learning from Rorty's Reconstructed Pragmatism
* Chapter 1: Rorty and Peirce: Pragmatism, Realism, and the Practice of
Inquiry
* Chapter 2: Rorty and James: The Ethics and Epistemology of Belief
* Chapter 3: Rorty and Dewey: Pragmatist Philosophy as Cultural
Criticism
* Chapter 4: Rorty and Royce: The Cultural Politics of Community,
Loyalty, and Difference
* Chapter 5: Rorty and Addams: Pragmatist Social Ethics and
Undemocratic Relations
* Conclusion: Post-Rortyan Pragmatism