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Pragmatism, Nation, and Race Community in the Age of Empire

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ISBN-10: 0253220785

ISBN-13: 9780253220783

Edition: 2009

Authors: Chad Kautzer, Eduardo Mendieta

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Description:

Pragmatism's engagement with contemporary American issues
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Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 6/9/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.25" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.078
Language: English

Chad Kautzer is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Social Justice Minor at the University of Colorado-Denver. He is co-editor, with Eduardo Mendieta, of Pragmatism, Nation, and Race: Community in the Age of Empire (Indiana University Press, 2009).

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Community in the Age of Empire
Transformative Communities and Enlarged Loyalties
When Philosophy Paints Its Blue on Gray: Irony and the Pragmatist Enlightenment
The Unexamined Frontier: Dewey, Pragmatism, and America Enlarged
Pragmatism and Solidarity with the Past
Mead on Cosmopolitanism, Sympathy, and War
Deliberating about the Past: Decentering Deliberative Democracy
The Racial Nation
Race, Nation, and Nation-State: Tocqueville on (U.S.) American Democracy
William James on Nation and Race
Race, Culture, and Black Self-Determination
Prophetic Vision and Trash Talkin': Pragmatism, Feminism, and Racial Privilege
The Tragedy and Comedy of Empire
The Unpredictable American Empire
Transcending the "Gory Cradle of Humanity": War, Loyalty, and Civic Action in Royce and James
Pragmatism and War
Laughter Against Hubris: A Preemptive Strike
Interview with Cornel West, Conducted
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index