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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