Democratic Hope: Pragmatism and the Politics of Truth

by Robert B. Westbrook

Pragmatism, as Richard Rorty has said, names the chief glory of our country's intellectual tradition. In Democratic Hope, Robert B. Westbrook examines the varieties of classical pragmatist thought in the work of John Dewey, William James, and Charles Peirce, testing in good pragmatic fashion the truth of propositions by their consequences in experience. Westbrook also attends to the recent revival of pragmatism by Rorty, Cheryl Misak, Richard...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801428335
• ISBN13: 9780801428333
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.4"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher