A Pragmatist's Progress?

Richard Rorty and American Intellectual History
Herausgeber: Pettegrew, John

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this volume, a host of distinguished scholars examine Richard Rorty's influence on twentieth-century American pragmatism and its commitment to achieving social democracy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rl Books
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 149mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 308g
• ISBN-13: 9780847690626
• ISBN-10: 0847690628
• Artikelnr.: 21732067

Autorenporträt

Edited by John Pettegrew - Afterword by Richard Rorty - Contributions by Casey Nelson Blake; James T. Kloppenberg; Jeffrey Isaac; James Livingston; Barry Allen and Joan Williams

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Pragmatism: An Old Name for Some New Ways
of Thinking? Chapter 3 Rorty, Radicalism, and Romanticism: The Politics of
Gaze Chapter 4 Private Life and Public Commitment: From Walter
Rauschenbusch to Richard Rorty Chapter 5 Lives of Irony: Randolph Bourne,
Richard Rorty, and a New Genealogy of Critical Pragmatism Chapter 6 Is It
Pragmatism? Rorty and the American Tradition Chapter 7 Is the Revival of
Pragmatism Practical? Chapter 8 Narrative Politics: Richard Rorty at the
"End of Reform" Chapter 9 Afterword: Intellectual Historians and Pragmatist
Philosophy