Democratic Hope
Pragmatism and the Politics of Truth
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 p…
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- ISBN: 978-1-5017-0205-1
- EAN: 9781501702051
- Produktnummer: 23653591
- Verlag: Cornell University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 531 KB
- Sonstiges: Ab 18 J.
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Robert B. Westbrook
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