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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Disenchantment of the World | |
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| The Flowering of Intellect and the Decline of Knowledge Politics and Ethics | |
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| The Cunning of Irony Science: Experimentation, Rationalization, or Acceleration? | |
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| The "Thirst for the Deed," the Bolshevik Revolution, and "Romantic" Pragmatism History: Evolution or Alienation? | |
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| Who Bore the Failure of the Light: Henry Adams | |
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| The Hand of the Father | |
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| The Failure of Classical Ideals History and the Problem of Consciousness | |
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| Science and the Fate of the Universe Four Problems of Modernism: Authority, Faith, Art, Love | |
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| The Pragmatic Affirmation: William James and the Will to Believe James and Adams's "Serial Law Fallacy" | |
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| The "Murdered Self" and the Riddle of Consciousness Beyond Rationalism and Empiricism | |
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| The Right to Choose One's Own Beliefs "Towards Action and Towards Power" | |
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| Truth as Pleasure, Knowledge as the Disposition to Believe Pragmatism and Its Paradoxes | |
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| Doubt and Deliverance: Charles Sanders Peirce and the Authority of Science "Proud Man/His Glassy Essence" | |
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| "Thought Is More Without Us Than Within" | |
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| Peirce versus James Between Realism and Nominalism | |
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| Adams and Peirce Synechism, Tychism, and the Dialectic of Doubt and Belief | |
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| The Objectivity Question Truth as Consensus | |
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| "The Flickering Candles of Consciousness" | |
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| John Dewey and the Challenge of Uncertainty | |
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| "Imagination in Action" | |
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| Dewey in Love "An Inward Laceration" | |
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| The Tension between Religion and Science | |
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| The False Quest for Certainty Alienation and the Origins of Mind | |
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| The Authority of Scientific Inquiry and the Problem of "Truth" Empirical Method and Moral Knowledge | |
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| Focusing on the Foreground: Dewey and the Problem of Historical Knowledge World War I and the Dewey-Bourne Debate | |
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| The Appeal to the Future | |
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| The Trotsky Inquiry and the Debate over Means and Ends World War II and the Double Irony of Philosophy and History | |
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| Pragmatism and the Problem of Power | |
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| The Challenge of Fascism | |
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| The Obscure Object of Power: Reinhold Niebuhr and Original Sin Dewey and the Classical Tradition | |
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| The Great Community: Politics as Contro The Child and the Curriculum: Education as Freedom | |
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| "The Acids of Modernity": Walter Lippmann and Oliver Wendell Holmes | |
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| The Odyssey of a Political Moralist Science and the Legitimacy of Government From Pragmatism and "The Phantom Public" to Natural Law | |
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| The Battle for America's Political Mind: Lippmann versus Dewey Holmes's Quarrel with the Pragmatists Legal Realism and Poststructuralism | |
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| Self and Society | |
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| The Socialization of Authority and the Fate of the Individual | |
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| Mead Classical and Christian Morality and the Disappearance of the Self | |
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| The Opposing Self: Lionel Trilling | |
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| The Decline and Revival of American Pragmatism | |
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| "The Corruption of Liberalism" | |
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| "The New Failure of Nerve": Sydney Hook's Response to Mortimer | |
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| Communism and the Vietnam War Epistemology Is Dead, Long Live Pragmatism: Richard Rorty's Quarrel with Philosophy as Theory | |
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| In Defense of the Enlightenment: Jurgen Habermas and the Promise of "Communicative Action" | |
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| The Case of the Progressive Historians | |
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| Conclusion: Poststructuralism and America's Intellectual Traditions | |
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| Philosophy as "Prophylactic": The Lost Legacy of the American | |
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| Founders Niebuhr and the Illusions of Poststructuralism | |
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| The Limits of Communication: Habermas Rorty's Political Thought and the Deweyan Legacy Against | |
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| Theory and the Limits of Redescription: Thorstein Veblen Emerson, Silence, and the Limits of Persuasion | |
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| The Return to History and the Temptation of "Agreeable Tales" | |
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| Index | |