Democratic Hope : : Pragmatism and the Politics of Truth / / Robert B. Westbrook.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Westbrook, Robert B.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Introduction --; PART ONE. Pragmatism Old --; 1. Peircean Politics --; 2. Our Kinsman, William James --; 3. Pullman and the Professor --; 4. On the Private Parts of a Public Philosopher --; 5. Marrying Marxism --; PART TWO. Pragmatism New --; 6. A Dream Country --; 7. Democratic Logic --; 8. Democratic Evasions --; 9. Educating Citizens --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501702068; 9783110536157; 9783110606744
• DOI: 10.7591/9781501702068
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Robert B. Westbrook.

Pragmatism, as Richard Rorty has said, "names the chief glory of our country's intellectual tradition." In Democratic Hope, Robert B. Westbrook examines the varieties of classical pragmatist thought in the work of John Dewey, William James, and Charles Peirce, testing in good pragmatic fashion the truth of propositions by their consequences in experience. Westbrook also attends to the recent revival of pragmatism by Rorty, Cheryl Misak, Richard Posner, Hilary Putnam, Cornel West, and others and to pragmatist strains in contemporary American political thinking. Westbrook's aims are both historical and political: to ensure that the genealogy of pragmatism is an honest one and to argue for a hopeful vision of deliberative democracy underwritten by a pragmatist epistemology and ethics.