Historicity and Hope in James, Dewey, and Rorty
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Colin Koopman proposes a recovery of pragmatism by way of "transitionalist" themes of temporality and historicity which flourish in the work of the early pragmatists and continue in contemporary neopragmatist thought. "Life is in the transitions," James once wrote, and, in following this assertion, Koopman reveals the continuities uniting both phases of pragmatism. Koopman's framework also draws from other contemporary theorists, including Michel Foucault, Pierre Bourdieu, Bernard Williams, and Stanley Cavell. By reflecting these voices through the prism of transitionalism, a new understanding of knowledge, ethics, politics, and critique takes root. Koopman concludes with a call for integrating Dewey and Foucault into a model of inquiry he calls genealogical pragmatism, a mutually informative critique that further joins the analytic and continental schools.
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Acknowledgments
Introduction: What Pragmatism Does
1. Transitionalism, Meliorism, and Cultural Criticism
2. Transitionalism in the Pragmatist Tradition
3. Three Waves of Pragmatism
4. Knowledge as Transitioning
5. Ethics as Perfecting
6. Politics as Progressing
7. Critical Inquiry as Genealogical Pragmatism
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Index