Pragmatism As Transition - Historicity and Hope in James, Dewey, and Rorty

Proposes a recovery of pragmatism by way of "transitionalist" themes of temporality and historicity which flourish in the work of the early pragmatists and continue in contemporary neopragmatist thought.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: What Pragmatism Does
1. Transitionalism, Meliorism, and Cultural Criticism
2. Transitionalism in the Pragmatist Tradition
3. Three Waves of Pragmatism
4. Knowledge as Transitioning
5. Ethics as Perfecting
6. Politics as Progressing
7. Critical Inquiry as Genealogical Pragmatism
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Colin Koopman is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Oregon and author of Genealogy as Critique: Foucault and the Problems of Modernity.

Summary

Proposes a recovery of pragmatism by way of "transitionalist" themes of temporality and historicity which flourish in the work of the early pragmatists and continue in contemporary neopragmatist thought.

Product details

• Authors: Colin Koopman, Koopman Colin
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.11.2015
• EAN: 9780231148757
• ISBN: 978-0-231-14875-7
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Pragmatism, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Deconstruction, Ethics and moral philosophy, Western philosophy from c 1800, Structuralism and Post-structuralism, pragmatism; moral philosophy