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Pragmatism has been reinvented in every generation since its beginnings in the late nineteenth century. This book, by one of today’s most distinguished contemporary heirs of pragmatist philosophy, rereads cardinal figures in that tradition, distilling from their insights a way forward from where we are now.Perspectives on Pragmatism opens with a new accounting of what is living and what is dead in the first three generations of classical American pragmatists, represented by Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, and John Dewey. Post-Deweyan pragmatism at midcentury is discussed in the work of Wilfrid Sellars, one of its most brilliant and original practitioners. Sellars’ legacy in turn is traced through the thought of his admirer, Richard Rorty, who further developed James’s and Dewey’s ideas within the professional discipline of philosophy and once more succeeded, as they had, in showing the more general importance of those ideas not only for intellectuals outside philosophy but for the wider public sphere.The book closes with a clear description of the author’s own analytic pragmatism, which combines all these ideas with those of Ludwig Wittgenstein, and synthesizes that broad pragmatism with its dominant philosophical rival, analytic philosophy, which focuses on language and logic. The result is a treatise that allows us to see American philosophy in its full scope, both its origins and its promise for tomorrow.
Hardcover: 248 pages
Publisher: Harvard University Press (October 10, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0674058089
ISBN-13: 978-0674058088
Product Dimensions: 6.4 x 1.1 x 9.4 inches
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Very few living philosophers come close to Brandom's breadth and depth. This perception of mine, based on his earlier books is fully confirmed by this one, a collection of recent essays on pragmatism and pragmatists. I only regret that Brandom learned to write his philosophical prose reading Hegel and Heidegger, rather than Berkeley or Hobbes. For someone who writes in English, those are not good paradigms.
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