Revival of Pragmatism (eBook, PDF)

New Essays on Social Thought, Law, and Culture
Redaktion: Morris Dickstein, Dickstein

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Produktbeschreibung

Although long considered the most distinctive American contribution to philosophy, pragmatism-with its problem-solving emphasis and its contingent view of truth-lost popularity in mid-century after the advent of World War II, the horror of the Holocaust, and the dawning of the Cold War. Since the 1960s, however, pragmatism in many guises has again gained prominence, finding congenial places to flourish within growing intellectual movements. This volume of new essays brings together leading philosophers, historians, legal scholars, social thinkers, and literary critics to examine the far-reaching effects of this revival.As the twenty-five intellectuals who take part in this discussion show, pragmatism has become a complex terrain on which a rich variety of contemporary debates have been played out. Contributors such as Richard Rorty, Stanley Cavell, Nancy Fraser, Robert Westbrook, Hilary Putnam, and Morris Dickstein trace pragmatism's cultural and intellectual evolution, consider its connection to democracy, and discuss its complex relationship to the work of Emerson, Nietzsche, and Wittgenstein. They show the influence of pragmatism on black intellectuals such as W. E. B. Du Bois, explore its view of poetic language, and debate its effects on social science, history, and jurisprudence. Also including essays by critics of the revival such as Alan Wolfe and John Patrick Diggins, the volume concludes with a response to the whole collection from Stanley Fish.Including an extensive bibliography, this interdisciplinary work provides an in-depth and broadly gauged introduction to pragmatism, one that will be crucial for understanding the shape of the transformations taking place in the American social and philosophical scene at the end of the twentieth century.Contributors. Richard Bernstein, David Bromwich, Ray Carney, Stanley Cavell, Morris Dickstein, John Patrick Diggins, Stanley Fish, Nancy Fraser, Thomas C. Grey, 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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 1998
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822382522
• Artikelnr.: 54817199

Autorenporträt

Morris Dickstein is Distinguished Professor of English at Queens College and at the Graduate School of the City University of New York. His previous books include Double Agent: The Critic and Society and Gates of Eden: American Culture in the Sixties.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Pragmatism Then and Now / Morris Dickstein
What Difference Does Pragmatism Make? The View From Philosophy
Pragmatism as Romantic Polytheism / Richard Rorty
Pragmatism and Realism / Hilary Putnam
Response to Hilary Putnam’s “Pragmatism and Realism” / Sidney Morgenbesser
The Moral Impulse / Ruth Anna Putnam
What’s the Use of Calling Emerson a Pragmatist? / Stanley Cavell
Pragmatism and the Remaking of Social Thought
Pragmatism: An Old Name for Some New Ways of Thinking? / James T.
Kloppenberg
Pragmatism and Democracy: Reconstructing the Logic of John Dewey’s Faith /
Robert B. Westbrook
Community in the Pragmatic Tradition / Richard J. Bernstein
Another Pragmatism: Alain Locke, Critical “Race” Theory, and the Politics
of Culture / Nancy Fraser
Going Astray, Going Forward: Du Boisian Pragmatism and Its Lineage / Ross
Posnock
The Inspiration of Pragmatism: Some Personal Remarks / Hans Joas
The Missing Pragmatic Revival in American Social Science / Alan Wolfe
Pragmatism and Its Limits / John Patrick Diggins
Pragmatism and Law
Pragmatic Adjudication / Richard A. Posner
Freestanding Legal Pragmatism / Thomas C. Grey
What’s Pragmatic about Legal Pragmatism? / David Luban
Pragmatism and Law: A Response to David Luban / Richard Rorty
It’s a Positivist, It’s a Pragmatist, It’s a Codifier! Reflections on
Nietzsche and Stendhal / Richard H. Weisberg
Pragmatism, Pluralism, and Legal Interpretations: Posner’s and Rorty’s
Justice without Metaphysics Meets Hate Speech / Michael Rosenfeld
Pragmatism, Culture, and Art
Why Do Pragmatists Want to Be Like Poets? / Richard Poirier
Pragmatists and Poets: A Response to Richard Poirier / Louis Menand
The Novelist of Everyday Life / David Bromwich
When Mind Is a Verb: Thomas Eakins and the Work of Doing / Ray Carney
Religion and the Recent Revival of Pragmatism, Giles Gunn
Afterword
Truth and Toilets: Pragmatism and the Practices of Life / Stanely Fish
Selected Bibliography
Contributors
Index