Pragmatism and American Experience: An Introduction

by Joan Richardson

Book Overview

Pragmatism and American Experience provides a lucid and elegant introduction to America's defining philosophy. Joan Richardson charts the nineteenth-century origins of pragmatist thought and its development through the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, focusing on the major first- and second-generation figures and how their contributions continue to influence philosophical discourse today. At the same time, Richardson casts pragmatism as the method...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521765331
• ISBN13: 9780521765336
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"