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

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction: Pragmatism Then and Now Morris Dickstein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES PRAGMATISM MAKE? THE VIEW FROM PHILOSOPHY
Pragmatism as Romantic Polytheism Richard Rorty Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	21
Response to Hilary Putnam's "Pragmatism and Realism" Sidney Morgenbesser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	54
The Moral Impulse Ruth Putnam Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	62
What's the Use of Calling Emerson a Pragmatist? Stanley Cavell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	72
PRAGMATISM AND THE REMAKING OF SOCIAL THOUGHT
Pragmatism: An Old Name for Some New Ways of Thinking? James Kloppenberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	83
Pragmatism and Democracy: Reconstructing the Logic of John Dewey's Faith Robert Westbrook Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	128
Community in the Pragmatic Tradition Richard Bernstein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	141
Another Pragmatism: Alain Locke, Critical "Race" Theory, and the Politics of Culture Nancy Fraser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	157
Going Astray, Going Forward: Du Boisian Pragmatism and Its Lineage Ross Posnock Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	176
The Inspiration of Pragmatism: Some Personal Remarks Hans Joas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	190
The Missing Pragmatic Revival in American Social Science Alan Wolfe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	199
Pragmatism and Its Limits John Diggins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	207
PRAGMATISM AND LAW
Pragmatic Adjudication Richard Posner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	235
Freestanding Legal Pragmatism Thomas Grey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	254
What's Pragmatic about Legal Pragmatism? David Luban Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	275
Pragmatism and Law: A Response to David Luban Richard Rorty Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	304
It's a Positivist, It's a Pragmatist, It's a Codifier! Reflections on Nietzsche and Stendhal Richard Weisberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	312
Pragmatism, Pluralism, and Legal Interpretation: Posner's and Rorty's Justice without Metaphysics Meets Hate Speech Michel Rosenfeld Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	324
PRAGMATISM, CULTURE, AND ART
Why Do Pragmatists Want to Be Like Poets? Richard Poirier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	347
Pragmatists and Poets: A Response to Richard Poirier Louis Menand Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	362
The Novelist of Everyday Life, David Bromwich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	370
When Mind Is a Verb: Thomas Eakins and the Work of Doing Ray Carney Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	377
Religion and the Recent Revival of Pragmatism Giles Gunn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	404
Afterword Truth and Toilets: Pragmatism and the Practices of Life Stanley Fish Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	418
Selected Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	435
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	441
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	445

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The Revival of Pragmatism

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