A Pragmatist's Progress? - Richard Rorty and American Intellectual History

In this volume, a host of distinguished scholars examine Richard Rorty's influence on twentieth-century American pragmatism and its commitment to achieving social democracy.

List of contents

Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Pragmatism: An Old Name for Some New Ways of Thinking? Chapter 3 Rorty, Radicalism, and Romanticism: The Politics of Gaze Chapter 4 Private Life and Public Commitment: From Walter Rauschenbusch to Richard Rorty Chapter 5 Lives of Irony: Randolph Bourne, Richard Rorty, and a New Genealogy of Critical Pragmatism Chapter 6 Is It Pragmatism? Rorty and the American Tradition Chapter 7 Is the Revival of Pragmatism Practical? Chapter 8 Narrative Politics: Richard Rorty at the "End of Reform" Chapter 9 Afterword: Intellectual Historians and Pragmatist Philosophy

About the author

John Pettegrew is assistant professor of history at Lehigh University. He is currently completing a book entitled Brutes in Suits: The Pathological Origins of American Masculinity, 1890-1920.

Summary

In this volume, a host of distinguished scholars examine Richard Rorty's influence on twentieth-century American pragmatism and its commitment to achieving social democracy.

Product details

• Assisted by: John Pettegrew (Editor), Rorty Richard (Afterword)
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.06.2000
• EAN: 9780847690619
• ISBN: 978-0-8476-9061-9
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 235 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 417 g
• Series: American Intellectual Culture; American Intellectual Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); USA, History of Ideas, 20th Century, HISTORY / Social History, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc