Pragmatism as Transition: Historicity and Hope in James, Dewey, and Rorty

Colin Koopman

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November, 2009
Cloth, 288 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14874-0
$45.00 / £31.00

Acknowledgments

Introduction: What Pragmatism Does

1. Transitionalism, Meliorism, and Cultural Criticism

2. Transitionalism in the Pragmatist Tradition

3. Three Waves of Pragmatism

4. Knowledge as Transitioning

5. Ethics as Perfecting

6. Politics as Progressing

7. Critical Inquiry as Genealogical Pragmatism

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Related Subjects

• Analytic Philosophy
• Continental/Feminist Philosophy

About the Author

Colin Koopman was recently a postdoctoral humanities research fellow at the University of California, Santa Cruz and is currently visiting assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Oregon. His second book concerns the uses of genealogical critique in the work of Michel Foucault.

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