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Title: Genealogical Pragmatism: Philosophy, Experience, and Community by John J. Stuhr ISBN: 0-7914-3558-X Publisher: State University of New York Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Life-changing
Comment: This is a remarkable book, overflowing with insights theoretical and practical. The scholarship is amazing, but it is the direct, engaging writing style that most amazes. This is easily the most far-reaching and original book drawing on pragmatism that has appeared in--well, maybe ever. Anyone reading analytical decompositions and recompositions of pragmatism should just stop immediately and pick up this book. From the time you begin Stuhr's analysis of the corporate structure of higher education, through his dialogue of Socrates and William James, to the concluding analyses of wealth, power, and personal death, you'll find someone who can actually make good and deliver on the promise of pragmatism.

Rating: 5
Summary: the future of pragmatism
Comment: This is by far the best book on pragmatism in the last several years, and one of the few books that genuinely advances (rather than merely summarizes) pragmatism. The author draws masterfully on the works of American pragmatists (especially James, Santayana, and Dewey) and recent European philosophers (especially Nietzsche, Derrida, and Foucault) in fifteen essays that focus on three major topics: philosophy and its reconstruction, the nature of experience, and the importance and possibility of community. These essays all are moving, direct, personal, and impassioned, and informed not only by philosophy but also by poetry and literature(especially Emerson, Wallace Stevens, Allen Ginsberg, Richard Brautigan, and others), popular music (especially Neil Young, Bob Dylan, REM, Paul Simon, and others), and economic data and charts (concerning the distribution of wealth and links between wealth and education). The author's pragmatism is insistently this-worldy and melioristic and practically demanding. For anyone interested in the genuine reconstruction of philosophy and culture--and not simply ironic conversation--this is the place to be. The essays on "The Idols of the Twilight: Pragmatism and Postmodernism," "Chronophobia," and "Community, Identity, and Difference" are especially outstanding, and the final chapter will bring tears and clear-eyed determination to any careful reader. An outstanding achievement.

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