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

Pragmatism as Transition: Historicity and Hope in James, Dewey, and Rorty (review) brings forward past achievements in compact and handy form, engages the present with sensibility and deep concern, and points us toward future tasks, both analytical and practical. Robert E. Innis University of Massachusetts Lowell Pragmatism as Transition: Historicity and Hope in James, Dewey, and Rorty Colin Koopman. New York: Columbia UP, 2009. This book is an extended and provocative exercise in describing pragmatism's past and in attempting to chart a course for its future. This description is not merely a history of philosophy or paean to American thought. It is rather a redescription that draws attention to a neglected and potentially fruitful theme in pragmatism, one that Koopman has termed "transitionalism" for its focus on historicity and temporality. One of the enduring features of pragmatism is its commitment to the revisability of truth claims and even to revising its own methods and aims. If pragmatism encourages philosophers to revise old ways of thinking, then pragmatists are people who expect important ideas and institutions to develop historically, and to whom the historical transitions are important. Nevertheless, Koopman says, pragmatists have failed to pay sufficient attention to these transitions--an oversight Koopman's book proposes to correct. With the announcement of transitionalism, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Pluralist University of Illinois Press

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

O'Hara, David.
The Pluralist , Volume 6 (2) – Sep 29, 2011
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brings forward past achievements in compact and handy form, engages the present with sensibility and deep concern, and points us toward future tasks, both analytical and practical. Robert E. Innis University of Massachusetts Lowell Pragmatism as Transition: Historicity and Hope in James, Dewey, and Rorty Colin Koopman. New York: Columbia UP, 2009. This book is an extended and provocative exercise in describing pragmatism's past and in attempting to chart a course for its future. This description is not merely a history of philosophy or paean to American thought. It is rather a redescription that draws attention to a neglected and potentially fruitful theme in pragmatism, one that Koopman has termed "transitionalism" for its focus on historicity and temporality. One of the enduring features of pragmatism is its commitment to the revisability of truth claims and even to revising its own methods and aims. If pragmatism encourages philosophers to revise old ways of thinking, then pragmatists are people who expect important ideas and institutions to develop historically, and to whom the historical transitions are important. Nevertheless, Koopman says, pragmatists have failed to pay sufficient attention to these transitions--an oversight Koopman's book proposes to correct. With the announcement of transitionalism,

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