Building a Social Democracy: The Promise of Rhetorical Pragmatism
Robert Danisch
Building a Social Democracyoffers 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.
年:
2015
出版社:
Lexington Books
语言:
english
页:
342
ISBN 10:
1498517773
ISBN 13:
9781498517775
文件:
PDF, 2.93 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2015