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Pragmatism's Advantage - American and European Philosophy at the End of the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
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Pragmatism's Advantage - American and European Philosophy at the End of the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
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This book addresses the rift between major philosophical factions
in the United States, which the author describes as a
"philosophically becalmed" three-legged creature made up of
analytic philosophy, continental philosophy, and pragmatism. Joseph
Margolis offers a modified pragmatism as the best way out of this
stalemate. Whether he is examining Heidegger or rethinking the
foibles of Dewey, Rorty, and Peirce, much of nineteenth- and
twentieth-century Western philosophy comes into play as Margolis
presents his history of philosophy's evolution and defends his
views. He does not, however, mean for philosophy to turn to the
pragmatism of yore or even to its revival in the 1970s. Rather, he
finds in recent approaches to pragmatism a middle ground between
analytic philosophy's scientism (and its disinterest in analyzing
human nature)and continental philosophy's reliance on attributing
transcendental powers to mere mortals.
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