Publication

2015 - Lexington Books/Fortress Academic

Language

English

Word Count

85,500 words, Guess

Page Count

342 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139781498517775
  • ISBN-101498517773
  • Library of Congress Control Number2015033408
  • OCLC Control Number921863930
  • Better World Books9781498517775
and 1 more

Classifications

  • LCCB832.B358 2015
  • LCCB832 .B358 2015

Description

Building a Social Democracy offers an alternative intellectual history of American pragmatism, one that tries to reclaim the middle of the twentieth century in order to push neo-pragmatism beyond its philosophical limitations. Danisch argues that the major entailment of the invention of American pragmatism at the beginning of the twentieth century is that rhetorical practices are the rightful object of study and means of improving democratic life. Pragmatism entails a commitment to rhetoric. Rhetorical pragmatism is intended to be more faithful to the project of first generation pragmatism, to offer insight into the ways in which rhetoric operates in contemporary democratic cultures, to recommend practices, methods, and modes of action for improving contemporary democratic cultures, and to subordinate philosophy to rhetoric by reimagining appropriate ways for pragmatist scholarship and social research to advance.--

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  • Building a Social DemocracyLexington Books/Fortress Academic2015

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