The Revival of Pragmatism: New Essays on Social Thought, Law, and Culture
In: Post-Contemporary Interventions
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Pragmatism Then and Now -- WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES PRAGMATISM MAKE? THE VIEW FROM PHILOSOPHY -- Pragmatism as Romantic Polytheism -- Response to Hilary Putnam's "Pragmatism and Realism" -- The Moral Impulse -- What's the Use of Calling Emerson a Pragmatist? -- PRAGMATISM AND THE REMAKING OF SOCIAL THOUGHT -- Pragmatism: An Old Name for Some New Ways of Thinking? -- Pragmatism and Democracy: Reconstructing the Logic of John Dewey's Faith -- Community in the Pragmatic Tradition -- Another Pragmatism: Alain Locke, Critical "Race" Theory, and the Politics of Culture -- Going Astray, Going Forward: Du Boisian Pragmatism and Its Lineage -- The Inspiration of Pragmatism: Some Personal Remarks -- The Missing Pragmatic Revival in American Social Science -- Pragmatism and Its Limits -- PRAGMATISM AND LAW -- Pragmatic Adjudication -- Freestanding Legal Pragmatism -- What's Pragmatic about Legal Pragmatism? -- Pragmatism and Law: A Response to David Luban -- It's a Positivist, It's a Pragmatist, It's a Codifier! Reflections on Nietzsche and Stendhal -- Pragmatism, Pluralism, and Legal Interpretation: Posner's and Rorty's Justice without Metaphysics Meets Hate Speech -- PRAGMATISM, CULTURE, AND ART -- Why Do Pragmatists Want to Be Like Poets? -- Pragmatists and Poets: A Response to Richard Poirier -- The Novelist of Everyday Life, -- When Mind Is a Verb: Thomas Eakins and the Work of Doing -- Religion and the Recent Revival of Pragmatism -- Afterword Truth and Toilets: Pragmatism and the Practices of Life -- Selected Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index