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Democratic hope : pragmatism and the politics of truth / Robert B. Westbrook.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2005Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0801428335
  • 9780801428333
  • 9781501702068
  • 1501702068
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Democratic hope : pragmatism and the politics of truth.DDC classification:
  • 144/.3/0973 22
LOC classification:
  • B832 .W47 2005eb
Other classification:
  • 08.45
Online resources:
Contents:
Peircean politics -- Our kinsman, William James -- Pullman and the professor -- On the private parts of a public philosopher -- Marrying Marxism -- A dream country -- Democratic logic -- Democratic evasions -- Educating citizens.
Review: "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 the propositions by their consequences in experience. Westbrook also attends to the recent revival of pragmatism by Rorty, Cheryl Misak, Richard Posner, Hilary Putman, 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."--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Peircean politics -- Our kinsman, William James -- Pullman and the professor -- On the private parts of a public philosopher -- Marrying Marxism -- A dream country -- Democratic logic -- Democratic evasions -- Educating citizens.

"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 the propositions by their consequences in experience. Westbrook also attends to the recent revival of pragmatism by Rorty, Cheryl Misak, Richard Posner, Hilary Putman, 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."--Jacket.

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