The Pragmatic Turn

by Richard J. Bernstein

Book Overview

In this major new work, Richard J. Bernstein argues that many of the most important themes in philosophy during the past one hundred and fifty years are variations and developments of ideas that were prominent in the classical American pragmatists: Charles S. Peirce, William James, John Dewey and George H Mead. Pragmatism begins with a thoroughgoing critique of the Cartesianism that dominated so much of modern philosophy. The pragmatic thinkers reject...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745649076
• ISBN13: 9780745649078
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.0"