Pragmatism as Post-Postmodernism: Lessons from John Dewey

by Larry A. Hickman

Book Overview

Larry A. Hickman presents John Dewey as very much at home in the busy mix of contemporary philosophy--as a thinker whose work now, more than fifty years after his death, still furnishes fresh insights into cutting-edge philosophical debates. Hickman argues that it is precisely the rich, pluralistic mix of contemporary philosophical discourse, with its competing research programs in French-inspired postmodernism, phenomenology, Critical Theory,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082322841X
• ISBN13: 9780823228416
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.3"