Pragmatism, Nation, and Race : Community in the Age of Empire

by Kautzer, Chad

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5/19/2009

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Indiana Univ Pr

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Pragmatism's engagement with contemporary American issues

Chad Kautzer is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado Denver.

Eduardo Mendieta is Professor of Philosophy at Stony Brook University. He is editor of Latin American Philosophy (IUP, 2003).

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction: Community in the Age of Empire	p. 1
Transformative Communities and Enlarged Loyalties
When Philosophy Paints Its Blue on Gray: Irony and the Pragmatist Enlightenment	p. 19
The Unexamined Frontier: Dewey, Pragmatism, and America Enlarged	p. 46
Pragmatism and Solidarity with the Past	p. 73
Mead on Cosmopolitanism, Sympathy, and War	p. 89
Deliberating about the Past: Decentering Deliberative Democracy	p. 110
The Racial Nation
Race, Nation, and Nation-State: Tocqueville on (U.S.) American Democracy	p. 127
William James on Nation and Race	p. 142
Race, Culture, and Black Self-Determination	p. 163
Prophetic Vision and Trash Talkin': Pragmatism, Feminism, and Racial Privilege	p. 186
The Tragedy and Comedy of Empire
The Unpredictable American Empire	p. 209
Transcending the "Gory Cradle of Humanity": War, Loyalty, and Civic Action in Royce and James	p. 222
Pragmatism and War	p. 242
Laughter Against Hubris: A Preemptive Strike	p. 254
Interview with Cornel West, Conducted	p. 279
Bibliography	p. 297
List of Contributors	p. 311
Index	p. 315
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