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Joan Richardson provides a fascinating and compelling account of
the emergence of the quintessential American philosophy:
pragmatism. She demonstrates pragmatism's engagement with various
branches of the natural sciences and traces the development of
Jamesian pragmatism from the late nineteenth century through
modernism, following its pointings into the present. Richardson
combines strands from America's religious experience with
scientific information to offer interpretations that break new
ground in literary and cultural history. This book exemplifies the
value of interdisciplinary approaches to producing literary
criticism. In a series of highly original readings of Edwards,
Emerson, William and Henry James, Stevens, and Stein, A Natural
History of Pragmatism tracks the interplay of religious motive,
scientific speculation, and literature in shaping an American
aesthetic. Wide-ranging and bold, this groundbreaking book will be
essential reading for all students and scholars of American
literature.
Pragmatism and American Experience provides a lucid and elegant
introduction to America's defining philosophy. Joan Richardson
charts the nineteenth-century origins of pragmatist thought and its
development through the twentieth and twenty-first centuries,
focusing on the major first- and second-generation figures and how
their contributions continue to influence philosophical discourse
today. At the same time, Richardson casts pragmatism as the method
it was designed to be: a way of making ideas clear, examining
beliefs, and breaking old habits and reinforcing new and useful
ones in the interest of maintaining healthy communities through
ongoing conversation. Through this practice we come to perceive, as
William James did, that thinking is as natural as breathing, and
that the essential work of pragmatism is to open channels essential
to all experience.
Joan Richardson provides a fascinating and compelling account of
the emergence of the quintessential American philosophy:
pragmatism. She demonstrates pragmatism's engagement with various
branches of the natural sciences and traces the development of
Jamesian pragmatism from the late nineteenth century through
modernism, following its pointings into the present. Richardson
combines strands from America's religious experience with
scientific information to offer interpretations that break new
ground in literary and cultural history. This book exemplifies the
value of interdisciplinary approaches to producing literary
criticism. In a series of highly original readings of Edwards,
Emerson, William and Henry James, Stevens, and Stein, A Natural
History of Pragmatism tracks the interplay of religious motive,
scientific speculation, and literature in shaping an American
aesthetic. Wide-ranging and bold, this groundbreaking book will be
essential reading for all students and scholars of American
literature.
Advance equity by learning to crack the system's codes We must act
now, using what we already know, to advance equity and raise the
achievement of every student. With three decades of leading equity
work across the country, George S. Perry Jr. issues a call to
action for educational leaders who are willing to fight the fight
for equity for all students. School and district leaders will
encounter roadblocks as they enact systemic change, but Equity
Warriors introduces practical, realistic, and strategic approaches
for navigating those barriers. Equity Warriors equips education
leaders with the moves they can make today to achieve the vision
that every student becomes a high achiever by Providing real school
and district examples of systemic equity efforts Demonstrating the
parallel work that school and district teams must do to achieve and
sustain systemic change Cracking the codes in the domains of
politics, diplomacy, and warfare to achieve the equity agenda.
Equity Warriors is a must read for leaders at all levels of the
system who have chosen to be in this fight and are ready to do what
it takes to make the system work for all students.
Pragmatism and American Experience provides a lucid and elegant
introduction to America's defining philosophy. Joan Richardson
charts the nineteenth-century origins of pragmatist thought and its
development through the twentieth and twenty-first centuries,
focusing on the major first- and second-generation figures and how
their contributions continue to influence philosophical discourse
today. At the same time, Richardson casts pragmatism as the method
it was designed to be: a way of making ideas clear, examining
beliefs, and breaking old habits and reinforcing new and useful
ones in the interest of maintaining healthy communities through
ongoing conversation. Through this practice we come to perceive, as
William James did, that thinking is as natural as breathing, and
that the essential work of pragmatism is to open channels essential
to all experience.
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