Pragmatism: A Reader by Louis Menand - ISBN: 9780679775447
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American pragmatism’s core ideas: wit, vigor, and mind-clearing force.

Pragmatism: A Reader

A Reader

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    560 pages

  • Release Date

    7 October 1997

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Summary

Here are the major texts of American pragmatism, from William James, John Dewey, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Charles Sanders Peirce to Cornell West, Richard Rorty, Hilary Putnam, Richard Posner, and Richard Poirier, now collected and reprinted unabridged. All are remarkable for the wit and vigor of their prose and the mind-clearing force of their ideas. They reflect the vital role that pragmatism has played in almost every area of American intellectual and cultural life, inspiring judges, educ…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780679775447
ISBN-10:0679775447
Author:Louis Menand
Publisher:Vintage Books
Imprint:Vintage
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:560
Release Date:7 October 1997
Weight:512g
Dimensions:24mm x 133mm x 203mm
Series:Vintage
About The Author

Louis Menand

Louis Menand, professor of English at Harvard University, is the author of The Metaphysical Club, which won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize in History. A longtime staff writer for The New Yorker, he lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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