A Pragmatist's Progress? Richard Rorty and American Intellectual History

by Pettegrew, John; Blake, Casey Nelson; Kloppenberg, James T.; Isaac, Jeffrey; Livingston, James; Allen, Barry; Williams, Joan; Rorty, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780847690619
• ISBN10: 084769061X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-06-28
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

In this volume, a host of distinguished scholars examine Richard Rorty's influence on twentieth-century American pragmatism and its commitment to achieving social democracy.

Author Biography

Barry Allen teaches philosophy at McMaster University (Ontario, Canada) Casey Nelson Blake is professor of history and director of the American Studies Program at Columbia University Jeffrey C. Isaac is the Rudy Professor of Political Science and director of the Center for the Study of Democracy and Public Life at Indiana University, Bloomington James T. Kloppenberg is professor of history at Harvard University James Livingston teaches U.S. history at Rutgers University John Pettegrew teaches U.S. history at Lehigh University, where he is also director of the American Studies Program Richard Rorty taught at Wellesley College for three years, Princeton University for twenty-one years, and the University of Virginia for fifteen years, and is now at Stanford Joan Williams has taught at Harvard, University of Virginia, and is currently professor of law at American University Law Schools

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction	1	(18)
John Pettegrew
Pragmatism: An Old Name for Some New Ways of Thinking?	19	(42)
James T. Kloppenberg
Rorty, Radicalism, Romanticism: The Politics of The Gaze	61	(24)
Joan C. Williams
Private Life and Public Commitment: From Walter Rauschenbusch to Richard Rorty	85	(18)
Casey Nelson Blake
Lives of Irony: Randolph Bourne, Richard Rorty, & a New Genealogy of Critical Pragmatism	103	(32)
John Pettegrew
Is It Pragmatism? Rorty and the American Tradition	135	(16)
Barry Allen
Is the Revival of Pragmatism Practical, or What Are the Consequences of Pragmatism?	151	(30)
Jeffrey C. Isaac
Narrative Politics: Richard Rorty at the ``End of Reform''	181	(26)
James Livingston
Afterword Intellectual Historians and Pragmatist Philosophy	207	(6)
Richard Rorty
Index	213	(8)
About the Contributors	221