Democratic Hope: Pragmatism and the Politics of Truth

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Cornell University Press, 2015年7月22日 - 256 頁

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.

 

內容

Preface
Introduction
Pragmatism
Peircean Politics
Our Kinsman William James
Pullman and the Professor
On the Private Parts of a Public Philosopher
Marrying Marxism
Pragmatism
A Dream Country
Democratic Logic
Democratic Evasions
Educating Citizens
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Robert B. Westbrook
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Robert B. Westbrook
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關於作者 (2015)

Robert B. Westbrook is Professor of History at the University of Rochester. He is the author of John Dewey and American Democracy, also from Cornell, winner of the Merle Curti Award. He is also the author of Why We Fought: Forging American Obligations in World War II and the coeditor of In Face of the Facts: Moral Inquiry in American Scholarship.

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書名Democratic Hope: Pragmatism and the Politics of Truth
作者Robert B. Westbrook
出版者Cornell University Press, 2015
ISBN150170205X, 9781501702051
頁數256 頁
  
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