Democratic hope : pragmatism and the politics of truth / Robert B. Westbrook.
Material type: TextPublisher: Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2005Description: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 0801428335
- 9780801428333
- 9781501702068
- 1501702068
- Pragmatism
- Democracy -- Philosophy
- Democracy -- United States
- United States -- Intellectual life
- Pragmatisme
- D�emocratie -- Philosophie
- D�emocratie -- �Etats-Unis
- �Etats-Unis -- Vie intellectuelle
- PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Humanism
- Democracy
- Democracy -- Philosophy
- Intellectual life
- Pragmatism
- United States
- Democratie
- Pragmatisme
- Politische Philosophie
- Demokratie
- USA
- PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Pragmatism
- 144/.3/0973 22
- B832 .W47 2005eb
- 08.45
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
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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