Pragmatism and American Experience - An Introduction

Informationen zum Autor Joan Richardson is Professor of English, Comparative Literature, American Studies, and Liberal Studies at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is the recipient of a 2012 Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Humanities Senior Fellowship and a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship. Her book, A Natural History of Pragmatism: The Fact of Feeling from Jonathan Edwards to Gertrude Stein, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2007 and nominated for the 2011 Grawemeyer Award in Religion. Klappentext Pragmatism and American Experience provides a lucid and elegant introduction to America's defining philosophy. Zusammenfassung A lucid and elegant introduction to America's defining philosophy. Joan Richardson discusses pragmatism as the method it was designed to be: a way of making ideas clear! examining beliefs! and breaking old habits and forging new and useful ones in the interest of maintaining healthy communities through ongoing conversation. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: thirteen ways of looking at pragmatism; 2. Context: William James, into the cosmic weather; 3. Method: Charles Sanders Pierce, the call of the wild; 4. Purpose: John Dewey, the conduct of life; 5. Effects 1: Stanley Cavell, squaring the circle: transcendentalist pragmatism; 6. Effects 2: Richard Rorty, sea change and/or ironic scraping; Bibliography.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Joan Richardson, Joan (City University of New York) Richardson
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 09.06.2014
• EAN: 9780521765336
• ISBN: 978-0-521-76533-6
• Pagine: 288
• Categorie: Saggistica > Filosofia, religione > Filosofia: dall'antichità ai giorni nostri; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura / linguistica inglese; English, Philosophy, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary theory