A Pragmatist's Progress?

A Pragmatist's Progress?
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 238
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ISBN-10 : 0847690628
ISBN-13 : 9780847690626
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Download or read book A Pragmatist's Progress? written by John Pettegrew and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2000 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Rorty's reclaiming of the pragmatist tradition and his contribution to the discipline of intellectual history are highlighted; at the same time, each essay finds Rorty's pragmatism (most fully enunciated in Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity) lacking in its privatist vision of the good life. This criticism is drawn out through explicit comparisons between Rorty and his grandfather Walter Rauschenbusch, William James, John Dewey, Randolph Bourne, Richard J. Bernstein, and other twentieth century pragmatist thinkers. This volume offers the most complete historical treatment of this controversial intellectual to date.


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