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Pragmatism and the Reflective Life by Stuart Rosenbaum (review)

Pragmatism and the Reflective Life by Stuart Rosenbaum (review) Pragmatism and the Reflective Life Stuart Rosenbaum. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2009. Pragmatism as a living philosophical tradition has at its very core the demand not to merely contemplate the world, but to reflect upon our modes of relating to it with an eye to doing something about "it." It is this complex "it" of world, reflection, and action that raises for us a hornet's nest of issues that Stuart Rosenbaum's book engages. Rosenbaum does not deny that pragmatism, in its various forms, surely gives us theses to ponder. Nevertheless, these theses are developed with a practical and existential intent, even if the working out of such intent remains dependent on conceptual clarity and (re)construction. On Rosenbaum's conception, pragmatism offers us tools for exercises in self-reflection, engaged attempts to get clear about specific frames, be they conceptual, moral, political, interpersonal, religious, and so forth, and to find ways of living consonant with Emerson's dictum, which he has taken to heart, that "character is higher than intellect," even if we need intellect, rightly conceived so as to avoid the paradigmatic tyranny of abstract knowledge, to build the "right" kind of character. It is precisely this kind of intellect that Rosenbaum http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Pluralist University of Illinois Press

Pragmatism and the Reflective Life by Stuart Rosenbaum (review)

The Pluralist , Volume 9 (1) – Mar 1, 2014

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Pragmatism and the Reflective Life Stuart Rosenbaum. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2009. Pragmatism as a living philosophical tradition has at its very core the demand not to merely contemplate the world, but to reflect upon our modes of relating to it with an eye to doing something about "it." It is this complex "it" of world, reflection, and action that raises for us a hornet's nest of issues that Stuart Rosenbaum's book engages. Rosenbaum does not deny that pragmatism, in its various forms, surely gives us theses to ponder. Nevertheless, these theses are developed with a practical and existential intent, even if the working out of such intent remains dependent on conceptual clarity and (re)construction. On Rosenbaum's conception, pragmatism offers us tools for exercises in self-reflection, engaged attempts to get clear about specific frames, be they conceptual, moral, political, interpersonal, religious, and so forth, and to find ways of living consonant with Emerson's dictum, which he has taken to heart, that "character is higher than intellect," even if we need intellect, rightly conceived so as to avoid the paradigmatic tyranny of abstract knowledge, to build the "right" kind of character. It is precisely this kind of intellect that Rosenbaum

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Published: Mar 1, 2014

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