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Regina's Calcaterra memoir, Etched in Sand, is an inspiring and triumphant coming-of-age story of tenacity and hope. Regina Calcaterra is a successful lawyer, New York State official, and activist. Her painful early life, however, was quite different. Regina and her four siblings survived an abusive and painful childhood only to find themselves faced with the challenges of the foster-care system and intermittent homelessness in the shadows of Manhattan and the Hamptons. A true-life rags-to-riches story, Etched in Sand chronicles Regina's rising above her past, while fighting to keep her brother and three sisters together through it all. Beautifully written, with heartbreaking honesty, Etched in Sand is an unforgettable reminder that regardless of social status, the American Dream is still within reach for those who have the desire and the determination to succeed.

Front Matter -- Value Inquiry Book Series /Rosa M. Calcaterra -- Copyright Page /Rosa M. Calcaterra -- Dedication /Rosa M. Calcaterra -- Preface /Rosa M. Calcaterra -- Abbreviations /Rosa M. Calcaterra -- From Pragmatism to Analytic Philosophy and Vice Versa /Rosa M. Calcaterra -- Linguistic Pragmatism /Rosa M. Calcaterra -- Truth and Justification /Rosa M. Calcaterra -- Historicism and the Aesthetic Challenge /Rosa M. Calcaterra -- Knowing Ourselves and Recognizing Others /Rosa M. Calcaterra -- Contingency and Normativity. Lines of a New Pragmatic Anthropology /Rosa M. Calcaterra -- Back Matter -- Bibliography /Rosa M. Calcaterra.

The strong influence of pragmatism in the early 20th-century international debate, its subsequent and apparently inexorable decline, and its recent revival are intertwined with the fate of other currents of thought that have marked the development of contemporary philosophy. This volume clarifies the most recent events of this development focusing on key theoretical issues common both to American classic philosophical tradition and analytical thought. Many essays in this volume belong to what we can call "new" pragmatism, namely a pragmatist perspective that is different from the postmodernist