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- Title
Is the Revival of Pragmatism Practical, or What are the Consequences of Pragmatism?
- Authors
Isaac, Jeffrey C.
- Abstract
The article focuses on the topic of pragmatism. It has become a commonplace to note the recent resurgence of interest in pragmatism among social theorists and cultural critics. In political theory alone the re-appropriation of pragmatism has helped to generate numerous studies on the conceptual and institutional history of political science, theoretical approaches to a non-foundational liberalism, and the possibilities for revitalizing democratic citizenship in America. The pragmatic spirit of inquiry and reform emerged amidst the context of the creation of the modern research university, the dramatic increase in graduate education, and the professionalism of newly formed disciplines, marked by the founding of the American Economic Association, the American Academy of Political and Social Science, the American Philosophical Association, the American Sociological Association and the American Political Science Association. Pragmatism today is primarily a philosophical and an academic phenomenon.
- Subjects
UNITED States; PRAGMATISM; MODERN philosophy; LIBERALISM; ASSOCIATIONS, institutions, etc.; DEMOCRACY; POLITICAL philosophy; IDEALISM; GRADUATE education
- Publication
Constellations: An International Journal of Critical & Democratic Theory, 1999, Vol 6, Issue 4, p561
- ISSN
1351-0487
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1467-8675.00162