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Original Title:	Pragmatism: A Reader
ISBN:	0679775447 (ISBN13: 9780679775447)
Edition Language:	English

Pragmatism: A Reader

Louis Menand

Paperback | Pages: 560 pages

Rating: 3.97 | 237 Users | 7 Reviews

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Title	:	Pragmatism: A Reader
Author	:	Louis Menand
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 560 pages
Published	:	October 7th 1997 by Vintage
Categories	:	Philosophy. Nonfiction. Theory. Academic. History

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Pragmatism has been called America's only major contribution to philosophy. But since its birth was announced a century ago in 1898 by William James, pragmatism has played a vital role in almost every area of American intellectual and cultural life, inspiring judges, educators, politicians, poets, and social prophets.

Now the major texts of American pragmatism, from William James and John Dewey to Richard Rorty and Cornel West, have been brought together and reprinted unabridged. From the first generation of pragmatists, including the Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes and the founder of semiotics, Charles Sanders Peirce, to the leading figures in the contemporary pragmatist revival, including the philosopher Hilary Putnam, the jurist Richard Posner, and the literary critic Richard Poirier, all the contributors to this volume are remarkable for the wit and vigor of their prose and the mind-clearing force of their ideas. Edited and with an Introduction by Louis Menand, Pragmatism: A Reader will provide both the general reader and the student of American culture with excitement and pleasure.

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This is a very good introduction to pragmatism. Menand's introductory essay and the essay by Bernstein are outstanding, and the selections from James are to-the-point and representative. The Rorty essay on Derrida, while interesting, seems out of place, as do a few of the Peirce selections. Overall, though, many different disciplines - including sociology, law & political science - are represented in the book, and this speaks well of pragmatism and this anthology.



Louis Menand, professor of English at Harvard University, is the author of The Metaphysical Club, which won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize in History. A longtime staff writer for The New Yorker, he lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Pragmatism: A Reader by Louis Menand (1997)

This is a very good introduction to pragmatism. Menand's introductory essay and the essay by Bernstein are outstanding, and the selections from James are to-the-point and representative. The Rorty essay on Derrida, while interesting, seems out of place, as do a few of the Peirce selections. Overall, though, many different disciplines - including sociology, law & political science - are represented in the book, and this speaks well of pragmatism and this anthology.

incredible how ahead of their time these thinkers seem to be. some of us are born pragmatic without any sense of how far reaching that really is. i love how relevant all of this is.read it.

Recommend the introduction.