Contributor
Hollinger, Robert.
Imprint:Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1995.
Descriptionxviii, 348 p. ; 25 cm.
Note:PART I: PRAGMATISTS AND PROGRESSIVES: 1. The problem of pragmatism in American history: a look back and a look ahead / David A. Hollinger -- 2. William James and Richard Rorty: context and conversation / George Cotkin -- 3. Community without fusion: Dewey, Mead, Tufts / James Campbell -- 4. Pragmatism, technology, and scientism: are the methods of the scientific-technical disciplines relevant to social problems? / Larry A. Hickman -- 5. The perils of personality: Lewis Mumford and politics after liberalism / Casey Nelson Blake -- PART II: PRAGMATISM, POSITIVISM, AND THE LINGUISTIC TURN: 6. Fertile ground: pragmatism, science, and logical positivism / Daniel J. Wilson -- 7. American philosophy and its lost public / Bruce Kuklick -- 8. James, Quine, and analytic pragmatism / Isaac Nevo -- 9. Vanishing frontiers in American philosophy: two dogmas of idealism / Ralph W. Sleeper -- 10. The decline of evolutionary naturalism in later pragmatism / Randall Auxier -- 11. Rorty's pragmatism and the linguistic turn / Rickard Donovan -- PART III: PRAGMATISM AND THE POSTMODERN CONDITION: 12. American pragmatism and the humanist tradition / Konstantin Kolenda -- 13. Postmodern pragmatism: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida, and Rorty / Bernd Magnus -- 14. Richard Rorty's romantic pragmatism / Isaac Nevo -- 15. Pragmatism, democracy, and the imagination: rethinking the Deweyan legacy / Giles Gunn -- 16. Theory, pragmatism, and politics / Cornel West.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-339) and index.
