The Pragmatic Turn in Philosophy: Contemporary Engagements between Analytic and Continental Thought

By Mike Sandbothe

Book Overview

Demonstrates that the divisions between analytic and continental philosophy are being replaced by a transcontinental desire to address common problems in a common idiom.

The Pragmatic Turn in Philosophy explores how the various discursive strategies of old and new pragmatisms are related, and what their pertinence is to the relationship between pragmatism and philosophy as a whole. The contributors bridge the divide between analytic and continental philosophy through a transcontinental desire to work on common problems in a common philosophical language. Irrespective of which side of the divide one stands on, pragmatic philosophy has gained ascendancy over the traditional concerns of a representationalist epistemology that has determined much of the intellectual and cultural life of modernity. This book details how contemporary philosophy will emerge from this recognition and that, in fact, this emergence is already underway.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 079146069X
• ISBN13: 9780791460696
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher