The Revival of Pragmatism: New Essays on Social Thought, Law, and Culture

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Morris Dickstein
Duke University Press, 23 лист. 1998 р. - 453 стор.
Although long considered the most distinctive American contribution to philosophy, pragmatism—with its problem-solving emphasis and its contingent view of truth—lost popularity in mid-century after the advent of World War II, the horror of the Holocaust, and the dawning of the Cold War. Since the 1960s, however, pragmatism in many guises has again gained prominence, finding congenial places to flourish within growing intellectual movements. This volume of new essays brings together leading philosophers, historians, legal scholars, social thinkers, and literary critics to examine the far-reaching effects of this revival.
As the twenty-five intellectuals who take part in this discussion show, pragmatism has become a complex terrain on which a rich variety of contemporary debates have been played out. Contributors such as Richard Rorty, Stanley Cavell, Nancy Fraser, Robert Westbrook, Hilary Putnam, and Morris Dickstein trace pragmatism’s cultural and intellectual evolution, consider its connection to democracy, and discuss its complex relationship to the work of Emerson, Nietzsche, and Wittgenstein. They show the influence of pragmatism on black intellectuals such as W. E. B. Du Bois, explore its view of poetic language, and debate its effects on social science, history, and jurisprudence. Also including essays by critics of the revival such as Alan Wolfe and John Patrick Diggins, the volume concludes with a response to the whole collection from Stanley Fish.
Including an extensive bibliography, this interdisciplinary work provides an in-depth and broadly gauged introduction to pragmatism, one that will be crucial for understanding the shape of the transformations taking place in the American social and philosophical scene at the end of the twentieth century.

Contributors. Richard Bernstein, David Bromwich, Ray Carney, Stanley Cavell, Morris Dickstein, John Patrick Diggins, Stanley Fish, Nancy Fraser, Thomas C. Grey, Giles Gunn, Hans Joas, James T. Kloppenberg, David Luban, Louis Menand, Sidney Morgenbesser, Richard Poirier, Richard A. Posner, Ross Posnock, Hilary Putnam, Ruth Anna Putnam, Richard Rorty, Michel Rosenfeld, Richard H. Weisberg, Robert B. Westbrook, Alan Wolfe


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Pragmatism as Romantic Polytheism
21
Pragmatism and Realism
37
Response to Hilary Putnams Pragmatism and Realism
54
The Moral Impulse
62
Whats the Use of Calling Emerson a Pragmatist?
72
An Old Name for Some New Ways of Thinking?
83
Reconstructing the Logic of John Deweys Faith
128
Community in the Pragmatic Tradition
141
Whats Pragmatic about Legal Pragmatism?
275
A Response to David Luban
304
Its a Positivist Its a Pragmatist Its a Codifier Reflections on Nietzsche and Stendhal
312
Posners and Rortys Justice without Metaphysics Meets Hate Speech
324
Why Do Pragmatists Want to Be Like Poets?
347
A Response to Richard Poirier
362
The Novelist of Everyday Life
370
Thomas Eakins and the Work of Doing
377

Alain Locke Critical Race Theory and the Politics of Culture
157
Du Boisian Pragmatism and Its Lineage
176
The Missing Pragmatic Revival in American Social Science
199
Pragmatism and Its Limits
207
Pragmatic Adjudication
235
Freestanding Legal Pragmatism
254
Religion and the Recent Revival of Pragmatism
404
Truth and Toilets Pragmatism and the Practices of Life
418
Selected Bibliography
435
Contributors
441
Index
445
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Сторінка 5 - The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience. The felt necessities of the time, the prevalent moral and political theories, intuitions of public policy, avowed or unconscious, even the prejudices which judges share with their fellow-men, have had a good deal more to do than the syllogism in determining the rules by which men should be governed.
Сторінка 7 - The truth of an idea is not a stagnant property inherent in it. Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events.
Сторінка 3 - In our cognitive as well as in our active life we are creative. We add, both to the subject and to the predicate part of reality. The world stands really malleable, waiting to receive its final touches at our hands. Like the kingdom of heaven, it suffers human violence willingly. Man engenders truths upon it.

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Morris Dickstein is Distinguished Professor of English at Queens College and at the Graduate School of the City University of New York. His previous books include Double Agent: The Critic and Society and Gates of Eden: American Culture in the Sixties.

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