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Pragmatism as Transition: Historicity and Hope in James, Dewey, and Rorty
Colin Koopman
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Description for Pragmatism as Transition: Historicity and Hope in James, Dewey, and Rorty
Hardback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 160 x 22. Weight in Grams: 506.
Pragmatism is America's best-known native philosophy. It espouses a practical set of beliefs and principles that focus on the improvement of our lives. Yet the split between classical and contemporary pragmatists has divided the tradition against itself. Classical pragmatists, such as John Dewey and William James, believed we should heed the lessons of experience. Neopragmatists, including Richard Rorty, Hilary Putnam, and Jurgen Habermas, argue instead from the perspective of a linguistic turn, which makes little use of the idea of experience. Can these two camps be reconciled in a way that revitalizes a critical tradition? Colin Koopman proposes a ... Read more
Pragmatism is America's best-known native philosophy. It espouses a practical set of beliefs and principles that focus on the improvement of our lives. Yet the split between classical and contemporary pragmatists has divided the tradition against itself. Classical pragmatists, such as John Dewey and William James, believed we should heed the lessons of experience. Neopragmatists, including Richard Rorty, Hilary Putnam, and Jurgen Habermas, argue instead from the perspective of a linguistic turn, which makes little use of the idea of experience. Can these two camps be reconciled in a way that revitalizes a critical tradition? Colin Koopman proposes a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231148740
SKU
V9780231148740
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About Colin Koopman
Colin Koopman is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Oregon and author of Genealogy as Critique: Foucault and the Problems of Modernity.
Reviews for Pragmatism as Transition: Historicity and Hope in James, Dewey, and Rorty
This may be the best general book about pragmatism in a decade... essential Choice Pragmatism as Transition is one of those rare books that sets our thinking on a new track. Exhaustively researched, the book not only cuts through facile readings of pragmatism that deny to us its transformative possibilities, but the book wonderfully teases out pragmatism's perfectionist core that ... Read more