1st Edition
Pragmatism and Democracy Studies in History, Social Theory, and Progressive Politics
Edited By Dmitri N. Shalin
Copyright 2011
412 Pages
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Routledge
414 Pages
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Routledge
412 Pages
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Routledge
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This volume examines the roots of pragmatist imagination and traces the influence of American pragmatism in diverse areas of politics, law, sociology, political science, and transitional studies. The work explores the interfaces between the Progressive movement in politics and American pragmatism. Shalin shows how early 20th century progressivism influenced pragmatism's philosophical agenda and... Read more
1: Empowering the Self: Romanticism, the French Revolution, and the Rise of Sociological Hermeneutics; 2: Reforming American Democracy: Socialism, Progressivism, and Pragmatic Reconstruction; 3: Envisioning Pragmatist Sociology: Philosophical Sources, Methodological Principles, and Political Underpinnings of Social Interactionism; 4: Challenging Critical Theory: The Frankfurt School, Communicative Action, and the Pragmatist Revival; 5: Reading Text Pragmatically: Modernity, Postmodernism, and Pragmatist Inquiry; 6: Signing in the Flesh: Pragmatist Hermeneutics, Embodied Sociology, and Biocritique; 7: Reframing the Law: Legal Pragmatism, Juridical Moralism, and the Embodied Democratic Process; 8: Cultivating Democratic Demeanor: Liberalism, Affect Control, and Emotionally Intelligent Democracy; 9: Becoming a Public Intellectual: Advocacy, National Sociology, and Paradigm Pluralism
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Dmitri N. Shalin
