Democratic Hope : : Pragmatism and the Politics of Truth / / 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 pragmati...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2015]
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Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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