Pragmatism
Author: Menand, Louis
ISBN: 9780679775447
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 07 Oct 1997
Pages: 560
Format: Paperback / softback
b>An invaluable resource-and an absorbing read-for everyone who is interested in the roots of American culture.br>/b>br>Here are the major texts of American pragmatism, from William James, John Dewey, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Charles Sanders Peirce to Cornell West, Richard Rorty, Hilary Putnam, Richard Posner, and Richard Poirier, now collected and reprinted unabridged. All are remarkable for the wit and vigor of their prose and the mind-clearing force of their ideas. They reflect the vital role that pragmatism has played in almost every area of American intellectual and cultural life, inspiring judges, educators, politicians, poets, and social prophets.
ISBN: 9780679775447
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 07 Oct 1997
Pages: 560
Format: Paperback / softback
b>An invaluable resource-and an absorbing read-for everyone who is interested in the roots of American culture.br>/b>br>Here are the major texts of American pragmatism, from William James, John Dewey, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Charles Sanders Peirce to Cornell West, Richard Rorty, Hilary Putnam, Richard Posner, and Richard Poirier, now collected and reprinted unabridged. All are remarkable for the wit and vigor of their prose and the mind-clearing force of their ideas. They reflect the vital role that pragmatism has played in almost every area of American intellectual and cultural life, inspiring judges, educators, politicians, poets, and social prophets.
