Democratic hope : pragmatism and the politics of truth

Democratic hope : pragmatism and the politics of truth /

"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...

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Main Author: Westbrook, Robert B. (Robert Brett), 1950- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2005.
Subjects:
Pragmatism.
Democracy > Philosophy.
Democracy > United States.
pragmatism.
PHILOSOPHY > Movements > Humanism.
PHILOSOPHY > Movements > Pragmatism.
Democracy
Democracy > Philosophy
Intellectual life
Pragmatism
Politische Philosophie
Demokratie
Democratie.
Pragmatisme.
United States > Intellectual life.
États-Unis > Vie intellectuelle.
United States
USA
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Table of 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.

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