Pragmatism's Advantage: American and European Philosophy at the End of the Twentieth Century

by Joseph Margolis

Book Overview

This book addresses the rift between major philosophical factions in the United States, which the author describes as a "philosophically becalmed" three-legged creature made up of analytic philosophy, continental philosophy, and pragmatism. Joseph Margolis offers a modified pragmatism as the best way out of this stalemate. Whether he is examining Heidegger or rethinking the foibles of Dewey, Rorty, and Peirce, much of nineteenth- and twentieth-century...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804762686
• ISBN13: 9780804762687
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"