{"product_id":"pragmatism-isbn-9780679775447","title":"Pragmatism","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn invaluable resource—and an absorbing read—for everyone who is interested in the roots of American culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere are the major texts of American pragmatism, from William James, John Dewey, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Charles Sanders Peirce to Cornell West, Richard Rorty, Hilary Putnam, Richard Posner, and Richard Poirier, now collected and reprinted unabridged. All are remarkable for the wit and vigor of their prose and the mind-clearing force of their ideas. They reflect the vital role that pragmatism has played in almost every area of American intellectual and cultural life, inspiring judges, educators, politicians, poets, and social prophets.\u003cb\u003eCONTENTS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn Introduction to Pragmatism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Note on the Selections\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe First Generation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCharles Sanders Peirce\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003efrom \"Some Consequences of Four Incapacities\" (1968)\u003cbr\u003e\"The Fixation of Belief\" (1877)\u003cbr\u003e\"How to Make Our Ideas Clear\" (1878)\u003cbr\u003efrom \"a Guess at the Riddle\" (ca. 1890)\u003cbr\u003efrom \"Evolutionary Love\" (1893)\u003cbr\u003e\"A Definition of Pragmatism\" (ca. 1904)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWilliam James\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003efrom \"Habit,\" in \u003ci\u003eThe Principles of Psychology \u003c\/i\u003e(1890)\u003cbr\u003e\"The Will to Believe\" (1896)\u003cbr\u003e\"What Pragmatism Means,\" in \u003ci\u003ePragmatism\u003c\/i\u003e (1907)\u003cbr\u003e\"Pragmatism's Conception of Truth,\" in \u003ci\u003ePragmatism \u003c\/i\u003e(1907)\u003cbr\u003efrom \"A Pluralistic Universe (1909)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eOliver Wendell Holmes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003efrom \"Lecture I:  Early Forms of Liability,\" in \u003ci\u003eThe Common Law \u003c\/i\u003e(1881)\u003cbr\u003efrom \"Lecture III:Torts--Trespass and Negligence,\" in \u003ci\u003eThe Common Law\u003c\/i\u003e (1881)\u003cbr\u003efrom \"Privilege, Malice, and Intent\" (1894)\u003cbr\u003e\"The Path of the Law\" 91897)\u003cbr\u003efrom \"Ideals and Doubts\" (1915)\u003cbr\u003e\"Natural Law\" (1918)\u003cbr\u003efrom \u003ci\u003eAbrams v. United States\u003c\/i\u003e (1919)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohn Dewey\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The Ethics of Democracy\" (1888)\u003cbr\u003e\"Theories of Knowledge,\" in \u003ci\u003eDemocracy and Education \u003c\/i\u003e(1916)\u003cbr\u003efrom \"The Need for a Recovery of Philosophy\" (1917)\u003cbr\u003e\"Experience, Nature and Art,\" in\u003ci\u003e Experience and Nature\u003c\/i\u003e (1925)\u003cbr\u003e\"I Believe\" (1939)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJane Addams\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003efrom \"A Function of the Social Settlement\" (1899)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGeorge Herbet Mead\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The Mechanism of Social Consciousness\" (1912)\u003cbr\u003e\"A Contrast of Individualistic and Social Theories of the Self\" (ca. 1927)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContemporary Pragmatism\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRichard Rorty\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"Philosophy as a Kind of Writing: An Essay on Derrida\" (1978-79)\u003cbr\u003e\"Postmodernist Bourgeois Liberalism\" (1983)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHilary Putnam\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Fact and Value,\" in \u003ci\u003eReason, Truth and History \u003c\/i\u003e(1981)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSteven Knapp and Walter Benn Michaels\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003efrom \"Against Theory\" (1982)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRichard J. Bernstein\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"Pragmatism, Pluralism, and the Healing of Wounds\" (1988)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCornel West \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003efrom \"Prophetic Pragmatism,\" in The American Evasion of Philosophy (1989)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRichard A. Posner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A Pragmatist Manifesto,\" in \u003ci\u003eThe Problems of Jurisprudence\u003c\/i\u003e (1990)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRichard Poirier\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Reading Pragmatically,\" in \u003ci\u003ePoetry and Pragmatism\u003c\/i\u003e (1992)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJoyce Appleby, Lynn Hunt, and Margaret Jacob \u003c\/i\u003efrom \"The Future of History,\" in \u003ci\u003eTelling the Truth About History\u003c\/i\u003e (1994)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eLOUIS MENAND is Professor of English at Harvard. His book \u003ci\u003eThe Metaphysical Club\u003c\/i\u003e (2001) won the Pulitzer Prize in History, the Francis Parkman Prize, and the Heartland Prize for Nonfiction. He is also the author of \u003ci\u003eAmerican Studies\u003c\/i\u003e (2002) and \u003ci\u003eDiscovering Modernism: T.S. Eliot and His Context\u003c\/i\u003e 91987; new edition 2004) and the editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Future of Academic Freedom \u003c\/i\u003e(1996). He was contributing editor of \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e from 1994 to 2001. Since 2001, he has been a staff writer at \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300848750821,"sku":"NP9780679775447","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679775447.jpg?v=1767735041","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/pragmatism-isbn-9780679775447","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}