The Revival of Pragmatism: New Essays on Social Thought, Law, and Culture

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The Revival of Pragmatism

New Essays on Social Thought, Law, and Culture

Edited by: Morris Dickstein , Stanley Fish and Fredric Jameson
With contributions by: Richard Rorty and Hilary Putnam

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 1998

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Post-Contemporary Interventions

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An assessment, by a distinguished panel of experts, on the impact of pragmatism on contemporary thought.

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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.

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Philosophy Selected Philosophical Movements Pragmatism

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Acknowledgments
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Introduction: Pragmatism Then and Now
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Morris Dickstein

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WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES PRAGMATISM MAKE? THE VIEW FROM PHILOSOPHY
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Pragmatism as Romantic Polytheism
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Richard Rorty

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Response to Hilary Putnam's "Pragmatism and Realism"
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Sidney Morgenbesser

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The Moral Impulse
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Ruth Putnam

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What's the Use of Calling Emerson a Pragmatist?
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Stanley Cavell

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PRAGMATISM AND THE REMAKING OF SOCIAL THOUGHT
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Pragmatism: An Old Name for Some New Ways of Thinking?
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James Kloppenberg

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Pragmatism and Democracy: Reconstructing the Logic of John Dewey's Faith
128
Robert Westbrook

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Community in the Pragmatic Tradition
141
Richard Bernstein

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Another Pragmatism: Alain Locke, Critical "Race" Theory, and the Politics of Culture
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Nancy Fraser

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Going Astray, Going Forward: Du Boisian Pragmatism and Its Lineage
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Ross Posnock

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The Inspiration of Pragmatism: Some Personal Remarks
190
Hans Joas

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The Missing Pragmatic Revival in American Social Science
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Alan Wolfe

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Pragmatism and Its Limits
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John Diggins

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PRAGMATISM AND LAW
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Pragmatic Adjudication
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Richard Posner

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Freestanding Legal Pragmatism
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Thomas Grey

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What's Pragmatic about Legal Pragmatism?
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David Luban

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Pragmatism and Law: A Response to David Luban
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Richard Rorty

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It's a Positivist, It's a Pragmatist, It's a Codifier! Reflections on Nietzsche and Stendhal
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Richard Weisberg

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Pragmatism, Pluralism, and Legal Interpretation: Posner's and Rorty's Justice without Metaphysics Meets Hate Speech
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Michel Rosenfeld

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PRAGMATISM, CULTURE, AND ART
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Why Do Pragmatists Want to Be Like Poets?
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Richard Poirier

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Pragmatists and Poets: A Response to Richard Poirier
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Louis Menand

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The Novelist of Everyday Life,
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David Bromwich

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When Mind Is a Verb: Thomas Eakins and the Work of Doing
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Ray Carney

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Religion and the Recent Revival of Pragmatism
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Giles Gunn

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Afterword Truth and Toilets: Pragmatism and the Practices of Life
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Stanley Fish

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Selected Bibliography
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Contributors
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Index
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The Revival of Pragmatism

Overview

About this book

Author / Editor information

Topics

Table of contents

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Pragmatism Then and Now

Pragmatism as Romantic Polytheism

Response to Hilary Putnam's "Pragmatism and Realism"

The Moral Impulse

What's the Use of Calling Emerson a Pragmatist?

Pragmatism: An Old Name for Some New Ways of Thinking?

Pragmatism and Democracy: Reconstructing the Logic of John Dewey's Faith

Community in the Pragmatic Tradition

Another Pragmatism: Alain Locke, Critical "Race" Theory, and the Politics of Culture

Going Astray, Going Forward: Du Boisian Pragmatism and Its Lineage

The Inspiration of Pragmatism: Some Personal Remarks

The Missing Pragmatic Revival in American Social Science

Pragmatism and Its Limits

Pragmatic Adjudication

Freestanding Legal Pragmatism

What's Pragmatic about Legal Pragmatism?

Pragmatism and Law: A Response to David Luban

It's a Positivist, It's a Pragmatist, It's a Codifier! Reflections on Nietzsche and Stendhal

Pragmatism, Pluralism, and Legal Interpretation: Posner's and Rorty's Justice without Metaphysics Meets Hate Speech

Why Do Pragmatists Want to Be Like Poets?

Pragmatists and Poets: A Response to Richard Poirier

The Novelist of Everyday Life,

When Mind Is a Verb: Thomas Eakins and the Work of Doing

Religion and the Recent Revival of Pragmatism

Afterword Truth and Toilets: Pragmatism and the Practices of Life

Selected Bibliography

Contributors

Index

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