Pragmatism and American Experience
An Introduction
- Author: Joan Richardson, City University of New York
- Date Published: September 2014
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521765336
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Pragmatism and American Experience provides a lucid and elegant introduction to America's defining philosophy. Joan Richardson charts the nineteenth-century origins of pragmatist thought and its development through the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, focusing on the major first- and second-generation figures and how their contributions continue to influence philosophical discourse today. At the same time, Richardson casts pragmatism as the method it was designed to be: a way of making ideas clear, examining beliefs, and breaking old habits and reinforcing new and useful ones in the interest of maintaining healthy communities through ongoing conversation. Through this practice we come to perceive, as William James did, that thinking is as natural as breathing, and that the essential work of pragmatism is to open channels essential to all experience.
Read more- Provides the biographical details for the major first- and second-generation pragmatists that illuminate their distinctive contributions
- Tells 'the story of the story' of pragmatism by interweaving personal histories with developments in science and changes in culture over the last 150 years
- Demonstrates in nontechnical language the significance and continuing usefulness of pragmatism as a method for meaningful living
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- Date Published: September 2014
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521765336
- length: 288 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 157 x 18 mm
- weight: 0.53kg
- contains: 1 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
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
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