Why Do Pragmatists Want to Be Like Poets?

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Pragmatism Then and Now 1
5. WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES PRAGMATISM MAKE? THE VIEW FROM PHILOSOPHY
6. Pragmatism as Romantic Polytheism 21
7. Response to Hilary Putnam's "Pragmatism and Realism" 54
8. The Moral Impulse 62
9. What's the Use of Calling Emerson a Pragmatist? 72
10. PRAGMATISM AND THE REMAKING OF SOCIAL THOUGHT
11. Pragmatism: An Old Name for Some New Ways of Thinking? 83
12. Pragmatism and Democracy: Reconstructing the Logic of John Dewey's Faith 128
13. Community in the Pragmatic Tradition 141
14. Another Pragmatism: Alain Locke, Critical "Race" Theory, and the Politics of Culture 157
15. Going Astray, Going Forward: Du Boisian Pragmatism and Its Lineage 176
16. The Inspiration of Pragmatism: Some Personal Remarks 190
17. The Missing Pragmatic Revival in American Social Science 199
18. Pragmatism and Its Limits 207
19. PRAGMATISM AND LAW
20. Pragmatic Adjudication 235
21. Freestanding Legal Pragmatism 254
22. What's Pragmatic about Legal Pragmatism? 275
23. Pragmatism and Law: A Response to David Luban 304
24. It's a Positivist, It's a Pragmatist, It's a Codifier! Reflections on Nietzsche and Stendhal 312
25. Pragmatism, Pluralism, and Legal Interpretation: Posner's and Rorty's Justice without Metaphysics Meets Hate Speech 324
26. PRAGMATISM, CULTURE, AND ART
27. Why Do Pragmatists Want to Be Like Poets? 347
28. Pragmatists and Poets: A Response to Richard Poirier 362
29. The Novelist of Everyday Life, 370
30. When Mind Is a Verb: Thomas Eakins and the Work of Doing 377
31. Religion and the Recent Revival of Pragmatism 404
32. Afterword Truth and Toilets: Pragmatism and the Practices of Life 418
33. Selected Bibliography 435
34. Contributors 441
35. Index 445