03065nam 2200613Ia 450 991082711040332120200520144314.01-282-69747-197866126974700-299-11963-7(CKB)2520000000006558(SSID)ssj0000411664(PQKBManifestationID)11243470(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000411664(PQKBWorkID)10356756(PQKB)10464746(MiAaPQ)EBC3444977(OCoLC)582727349(MdBmJHUP)muse12101(Au-PeEL)EBL3444977(CaPaEBR)ebr10370388(CaONFJC)MIL269747(OCoLC)608692468(PPN)250966131(EXLCZ)99252000000000655819880921d1989 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe American evasion of philosophy a genealogy of pragmatism /Cornel West1st ed.Madison, Wis. University of Wisconsin Pressc1989279 pThe Wisconsin project on American writersBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-299-11964-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Emersonian Prehistory of American Pragmatism -- Emerson on Power (and Tradition) -- Emerson on Provocation (and the Market) -- Emerson on Personality (and Race) -- Emerson on Organic Intellectual -- 2 The Historic Emergence of American Pragmatism -- Peirce on Scientific Method, Community, and Christian Love -- James on Individuality, Reconciliation, and Heroic Energies -- 3 The Coming-of-Age of American Pragmatism: John Dewey -- Dewey on Historical Consciousness, Critical Intelligence, and creative Democracy -- 4 The Dilemma of the Mid-Century Pragmatic Intellectual -- Sidney Hook: The Deweyen Political Intellecrual -- C. Wright Mills: The Neo-Deweyan Radical Social Critic -- W.E.B. Du Bois: The Jamesian Cultural Critic -- Reinhold Niebuhr: The Jamesian Cultural Critic -- Lionel Trilling: The Pragmatist as Arnoldian Literary Critic -- 5 the Decline and Resurgence of American Pragmatism: W.V. Quine and Richard Rorty -- 6. Prophetic Pragmatism: Cultural Criticism and Political Engagement -- Roverto Unger and Third-Wave Left Romanticism -- The Challenge of Michel Foucault -- Tragedy, Tradition, and Political Praxis -- Prophetic Pragmatism and Postmodernity -- Notes -- Index.Wisconsin project on American writers.Philosophy, AmericanHistoryPragmatismHistoryPhilosophy, AmericanHistory.PragmatismHistory.144/.3/0973West Cornel262734MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910827110403321The American evasion of philosophy3973565UNINA