LEADER 03065nam 2200613Ia 450 001 9910827110403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-69747-1 010 $a9786612697470 010 $a0-299-11963-7 035 $a(CKB)2520000000006558 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000411664 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11243470 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000411664 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10356756 035 $a(PQKB)10464746 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3444977 035 $a(OCoLC)582727349 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse12101 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3444977 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10370388 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL269747 035 $a(OCoLC)608692468 035 $a(PPN)250966131 035 $a(EXLCZ)992520000000006558 100 $a19880921d1989 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe American evasion of philosophy $ea genealogy of pragmatism /$fCornel West 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aMadison, Wis. $cUniversity of Wisconsin Press$dc1989 215 $a279 p 225 1 $aThe Wisconsin project on American writers 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-299-11964-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Emersonian Prehistory of American Pragmatism -- Emerson on Power (and Tradition) -- Emerson on Provocation (and the Market) -- Emerson on Personality (and Race) -- Emerson on Organic Intellectual -- 2 The Historic Emergence of American Pragmatism -- Peirce on Scientific Method, Community, and Christian Love -- James on Individuality, Reconciliation, and Heroic Energies -- 3 The Coming-of-Age of American Pragmatism: John Dewey -- Dewey on Historical Consciousness, Critical Intelligence, and creative Democracy -- 4 The Dilemma of the Mid-Century Pragmatic Intellectual -- Sidney Hook: The Deweyen Political Intellecrual -- C. Wright Mills: The Neo-Deweyan Radical Social Critic -- W.E.B. Du Bois: The Jamesian Cultural Critic -- Reinhold Niebuhr: The Jamesian Cultural Critic -- Lionel Trilling: The Pragmatist as Arnoldian Literary Critic -- 5 the Decline and Resurgence of American Pragmatism: W.V. Quine and Richard Rorty -- 6. Prophetic Pragmatism: Cultural Criticism and Political Engagement -- Roverto Unger and Third-Wave Left Romanticism -- The Challenge of Michel Foucault -- Tragedy, Tradition, and Political Praxis -- Prophetic Pragmatism and Postmodernity -- Notes -- Index. 410 0$aWisconsin project on American writers. 606 $aPhilosophy, American$xHistory 606 $aPragmatism$xHistory 615 0$aPhilosophy, American$xHistory. 615 0$aPragmatism$xHistory. 676 $a144/.3/0973 700 $aWest$b Cornel$0262734 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910827110403321 996 $aThe American evasion of philosophy$93973565 997 $aUNINA