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The American Evasion of Philosophy: A Genealogy of Pragmatism
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Cornel West
Taking Emerson as his starting point, Cornel West’s basic task in this ambitious enterprise is to chart the emergence, development, decline, and recent resurgence of American pragmatism. John Dewey is the central figure in West’s pantheon of pragmatists, but he treats as well such varied mid-century representatives of the tradition as Sidney Hook, C. Wright Mills, W. E. B....more
Paperback, 292 pages
Published
April 15th 1989
by University of Wisconsin Press
(first published February 1st 1989)
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Tough read, but still interesting and necessary in order to understand pragmatism spread outside of Dewey and James.
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Cornel Ronald West is an American scholar and public intellectual. Formerly at Harvard University, West is currently a professor of Religion at Princeton. West says his intellectual contributions draw from such diverse traditions as the African American Baptist Church, Marxism, pragmatism, transcendentalism, and Anton Chekhov.
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