Pragmatism - From Progressivism to Postmodernism

List of contents

General Introduction
Pragmatists and Progressives
Introduction by David Depew and Robert Hollinger
The Problem of Pragmatism in American History: A Look Back, and a Look Ahead by David A. Hollinger
William James and Richard Rorty: Context and Conversation by George Cotkin
Community Without Fusion: Dewey, Mead, Tufts by James Campbell
Pragmatism, Technology, and Scientism: Are the Methods of the Scientific-Technical Disciplines Relevant to Social Problems by Larry Hickman
The Perils of Personality: Lewis Mumford and Politics After Liberalism by Casey Nelson Blake
Pragmatism and Positivism
Introduction by David Depew
Fertile Ground: Pragmatism, Science, and Logical Positivism by Daniel J. Wilson
American Philosophy and Its Lost Public by Bruce Kuklick
James, Quine, and Analytic Pragmatism by Isaac Nevo
Vanishing Frontiers in American Philosophy: Two Dogmas of Idealism by Ralph W. Sleeper
The Decline of Evolutionary Naturalism in Later Pragmatism by Randall Auxier
Rorty's Pragmatism and the Linguistic Turn by Rickard Donovan
Pragmatism and the Postmodern Condition
Introduction by David Depew and Robert Hollinger
merican Pragmatism and the Humanist Traditions by Konstantine Kolenda
Postmodern Pragmatism: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida, and Rorty by Bernd Magnus
Richard Rorty's Romantic Pragmatism by Isaac Nevo
Pragmatism, Democracy, and the Imagination: Rethinking the Deweyan Legacy by Giles Gunn
Theory, Pragmatisms, and Politics by Cornel West
Selected Bibliography

About the author

ROBERT HOLLINGER is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Iowa State University./e He is author of Postmodernism and the Social Sciences: A Thematic Approach and coeditor, with David Depew, of Pragmatism: From Progressivism to Postmodernism (Praeger, 1994).

Product details

• Authors: David Depew, Hollinger Robert
• Assisted by: David Depew (Editor), Robert Hollinger (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 17
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.01.1999
• EAN: 9780275965242
• ISBN: 978-0-275-96524-2
• No. of pages: 368
• Weight: 539 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; USA, Cultural Studies, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Political science & theory, United States of America, USA, Western philosophy from c 1800, Political science and theory, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc, Politics, Law, and Government