Dickstein / Fish / Jameson The Revival of Pragmatism

New Essays on Social Thought, Law, and Culture
1. Auflage 1998
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8252-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 464 Seiten

Reihe: Post-Contemporary Interventions

An assessment, by a distinguished panel of experts, on the impact of pragmatism on contemporary thought.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dickstein, Morris

Fish, Stanley

Jameson, Fredric

Weitere Mitwirkende

Rorty, Richard

Putnam, Hilary

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Pragmatism Then and Now Dickstein Morris WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES PRAGMATISM MAKE? THE VIEW FROM PHILOSOPHY Pragmatism as Romantic Polytheism Rorty Richard Pragmatism and Realism Putnam Hilary Response to Hilary Putnam's “Pragmatism and Realism” Morgenbesser Sidney The Moral Impulse Putnam Ruth Anna What's the Use of Calling Emerson a Pragmatist? Cavell Stanley PRAGMATISM AND THE REMAKING OF SOCIAL THOUGHT Pragmatism: An Old Name for Some New Ways of Thinking? Kloppenberg James T. Pragmatism and Democracy: Reconstructing the Logic of John Dewey's Faith Westbrook Robert B. Community in the Pragmatic Tradition Bernstein Richard J. Another Pragmatism: Alain Locke, Critical “Race” Theory, and the Politics of Culture Fraser Nancy Going Astray, Going Forward: Du Boisian Pragmatism and Its Lineage Posnock Ross The Inspiration of Pragmatism: Some Personal Remarks Joas Hans The Missing Pragmatic Revival in American Social Science Wolfe Alan Pragmatism and Its Limits Diggins John Patrick PRAGMATISM AND LAW Pragmatic Adjudication Posner Richard A. Freestanding Legal Pragmatism Grey Thomas C. What's Pragmatic about Legal Pragmatism? Luban David Pragmatism and Law: A Response to David Luban Rorty Richard It's a Positivist, It's a Pragmatist, It's a Codifier! Reflections on Nietzsche and Stendhal Weisberg Richard H. Pragmatism, Pluralism, and Legal Interpretation: Posner's and Rorty's Justice without Metaphysics Meets Hate Speech Rosenfeld Michel PRAGMATISM, CULTURE, AND ART Why Do Pragmatists Want to Be Like Poets? Poirier Richard Pragmatists and Poets: A Response to Richard Poirier Menand Louis The Novelist of Everyday Life Bromwich David When Mind Is a Verb: Thomas Eakins and the Work of Doing Carney Ray Religion and the Recent Revival of Pragmatism Gunn Giles AFTERWORD Truth and Toilets: Pragmatism and the Practices of Life Fish Stanley Selected Bibliography Contributors Index

Über Autor(innen)

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.