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Book SynopsisThis book represents the reflections of scholars coming from varied disciplinary backgrounds who have found a conversation partner in pragmatism. The “conversations” recorded here demonstrate pragmatism’s versatility and contemporary relevance. Whether it be rhetoric, literature, philosophy, religion, or social psychology, pragmatism provides the contributors fruitful insights into and methods of examining both practical and theoretical issues.
Trade Review”To the editors’s credit, they produced a volume that applies pragmatism (and doesn’t just talk about it). By compiling essays across several disciplines, this is a nice statement to philosophers in particular to be less academically insulated and isolated, even pragmatist philosophers. A virtue of the book, then, is to take the pragmatist ethos seriously and apply it, to show the value and fecundity of pragmatism across academic and non-academic concerns.” in: Contemporary Pragmatism, Vol. 1, No. 2 (December 2004)
Table of ContentsJohn R. SHOOK: Editorial Foreword PREFACE Jeffery GELLER & Paul CUSTODIO BUBE: On Conversations ONE Peter CAUFIELD: Autobiographical Sketch. A Room in the Pragmatic Hotel: William James, Language, and Epistemology TWO Susan ROSS: Autobiographical Sketch. Women’s Rhetorical Style as an Alternative Vision of Democracy THREE Richard CARSON: Autobiographical Sketch. “A Matter for Whispered Communications”: The Bostonians, Pragmatism, and The Culture of Uncertainty FOUR Luis E. WONG: Autobiographical Sketch. The Ethics of Dissensus : Literary Criticism in the Age of Relativism FIVE Stuart ROSENBAUM: Autobiographical Sketch. Sustaining the Pragmatic Critique of Epistemology SIX Zdenka KALNICKA: Autobiographical Sketch. Is the Problem of Interpretation Illegitimate for Pragmatism? SEVEN Paul CUSTODIO BUBE: Autobiographical Sketch. Twin Children of Different Mothers: The Theologies of Gordon D. Kaufman and John B. Cobb, Jr. EIGHT Jeffery GELLER: Autobiographical Sketch. The Thickness Unto Death: Kenneth Burke on the Mortification of Thought NINE Ari SANTAS: Autobiographical Sketch. Some Consequences of Mead’s Institutional Theory of the Self INDEX
