skip to content
Pragmatism and the tragic sense of life
ClosePreview this item

Pragmatism and the tragic sense of life

Author: Sidney Hook
Publisher: New York : Basic Books, [1975] ©1974.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:
The element that unifies this collection of essays, written over the span of a generation, is the commitment to the philosophy of a pragmatism in the tradition of Charles Peirce and John Dewey. Peirce repudiated the term "pragmatism" after William James made it popular. Dewey often deplored its debasement in common usage. In recent years it has been made synonymous in some quarters with chicanery, unprincipled  Read more...
Rating:

(not yet rated) 0 with reviews - Be the first.

 

Find a copy in the library

&AllPage.SpinnerRetrieving; Finding libraries that hold this item...

Details

Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Sidney Hook
ISBN: 0465061761 9780465061761
OCLC Number: 1206152
Description: xvi, 224 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Affirmations. Pragmatism and the tragic sense of life ; Intelligence and evil in human history ; The quest for certainty-existentialism without tears ; The place of reason in an age of conflict ; Absolutism and human rights --
Critical and historical studies. Some memories of John Dewey ; Hegel and the perspective of liberalism ; A critique of ethical realism ; On historical understanding ; Philosophy and/or agony ; The moral vision of Reinhold Niebuhr ; The atheism of Paul Tillich ; In defense of the enlightenment.
Responsibility: Sidney Hook.

Abstract:

The element that unifies this collection of essays, written over the span of a generation, is the commitment to the philosophy of a pragmatism in the tradition of Charles Peirce and John Dewey. Peirce repudiated the term "pragmatism" after William James made it popular. Dewey often deplored its debasement in common usage. In recent years it has been made synonymous in some quarters with chicanery, unprincipled behavior, and self-serving expediency.

Reviews

User-contributed reviews
Retrieving GoodReads reviews...

Tags

Be the first.
Confirm this request

You may have already requested this item. Please select Ok if you would like to proceed with this request anyway.

Linked Data


<http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1206152>
library:oclcnum"1206152"
library:placeOfPublication
library:placeOfPublication
owl:sameAs<info:oclcnum/1206152>
rdf:typeschema:Book
rdfs:seeAlso
rdfs:seeAlso
schema:about
schema:about
rdf:typeschema:Intangible
schema:name"Siècle des lumières."
schema:about
schema:about
schema:about
schema:about
schema:about
schema:about
schema:about
schema:about
schema:about
schema:about
schema:about
schema:author
schema:copyrightYear"1974"
schema:datePublished"1975 c1974"
schema:datePublished"1975"
schema:description"The element that unifies this collection of essays, written over the span of a generation, is the commitment to the philosophy of a pragmatism in the tradition of Charles Peirce and John Dewey. Peirce repudiated the term "pragmatism" after William James made it popular. Dewey often deplored its debasement in common usage. In recent years it has been made synonymous in some quarters with chicanery, unprincipled behavior, and self-serving expediency."
schema:description"Affirmations. Pragmatism and the tragic sense of life ; Intelligence and evil in human history ; The quest for certainty-existentialism without tears ; The place of reason in an age of conflict ; Absolutism and human rights -- Critical and historical studies. Some memories of John Dewey ; Hegel and the perspective of liberalism ; A critique of ethical realism ; On historical understanding ; Philosophy and/or agony ; The moral vision of Reinhold Niebuhr ; The atheism of Paul Tillich ; In defense of the enlightenment."
schema:inLanguage"en"
schema:name"Pragmatism and the tragic sense of life"
schema:numberOfPages"224"
schema:publisher
Close Window

Please sign in to WorldCat 

Don't have an account? You can easily create a free account.