An invaluable resource-and an absorbing read-for everyone who is interested in the roots of American culture.
Here are the major texts of American pragmatism, from William James, John Dewey, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Charles Sanders Peirce to Cornell West, Richard Rorty, Hilary Putnam, Richard Posner, and Richard Poirier, now collected and reprinted unabridged. All are remarkable for the wit and vigor of their prose and the mind-clearing force of their ideas. They reflect the vital role that pragmatism has played in almost every area of American intellectual and cultural life, inspiring judges, educators, politicians, poets, and social prophets.
By:
Louis Menand
Imprint: Random House USA Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 203mm,
Width: 132mm,
Spine: 30mm
Weight: 430g
ISBN: 9780679775447
ISBN 10: 0679775447
Pages: 560
Publication Date: 07 October 1997
Audience:
General/trade
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College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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ELT Advanced
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A / AS level
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
"CONTENTS An Introduction to Pragmatism A Note on the Selections The First Generation Charles Sanders Peirce from ""Some Consequences of Four Incapacities"" (1968) ""The Fixation of Belief"" (1877) ""How to Make Our Ideas Clear"" (1878) from ""a Guess at the Riddle"" (ca. 1890) from ""Evolutionary Love"" (1893) ""A Definition of Pragmatism"" (ca. 1904) William James from ""Habit,"" in The Principles of Psychology (1890) ""The Will to Believe"" (1896) ""What Pragmatism Means,"" in Pragmatism (1907) ""Pragmatism's Conception of Truth,"" in Pragmatism (1907) from ""A Pluralistic Universe (1909) Oliver Wendell Holmes from ""Lecture I: Early Forms of Liability,"" in The Common Law (1881) from ""Lecture III:Torts--Trespass and Negligence,"" in The Common Law (1881) from ""Privilege, Malice, and Intent"" (1894) ""The Path of the Law"" 91897) from ""Ideals and Doubts"" (1915) ""Natural Law"" (1918) from Abrams v. United States (1919) John Dewey ""The Ethics of Democracy"" (1888) ""Theories of Knowledge,"" in Democracy and Education (1916) from ""The Need for a Recovery of Philosophy"" (1917) ""Experience, Nature and Art,"" in Experience and Nature (1925) ""I Believe"" (1939) Jane Addams from ""A Function of the Social Settlement"" (1899) George Herbet Mead ""The Mechanism of Social Consciousness"" (1912) ""A Contrast of Individualistic and Social Theories of the Self"" (ca. 1927) Contemporary Pragmatism Richard Rorty ""Philosophy as a Kind of Writing: An Essay on Derrida"" (1978-79) ""Postmodernist Bourgeois Liberalism"" (1983) Hilary Putnam ""Fact and Value,"" in Reason, Truth and History (1981) Steven Knapp and Walter Benn Michaels from ""Against Theory"" (1982) Richard J. Bernstein ""Pragmatism, Pluralism, and the Healing of Wounds"" (1988) Cornel West from ""Prophetic Pragmatism,"" in The American Evasion of Philosophy (1989) Richard A. Posner ""A Pragmatist Manifesto,"" in The Problems of Jurisprudence (1990) Richard Poirier ""Reading Pragmatically,"" in Poetry and Pragmatism (1992) Joyce Appleby, Lynn Hunt, and Margaret Jacob from ""The Future of History,"" in Telling the Truth About History (1994) Bibliography Notes Index"
