Description: Pragmatism and Social TheoryAuthor(s): Hans Joas Format: Paperback Publisher: The University of Chicago Press, United States Imprint: University of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 9780226400426, 978-0226400426 Synopsis Rising concerns among scholars about the intellectual and cultural foundations of democracy have led to a revival of interest in the American philosophical tradition of pragmatism. In this book, Hans Joas shows how pragmatism can link divergent intellectual efforts to understand the social contexts of human knowledge, individual freedom, and democratic culture. Along with pragmatism's impact on American sociology and social research from 1895 to the 1940s, Joas traces its reception by French and German traditions during this century. He explores the influences of pragmatism-often misunderstood-on Emile Durkheim's sociology of knowledge, and on German thought, with particularly enlightening references to its appropriation by Nazism and its rejection by neo-Marxism. He also explores new currents of social theory in the work of Habermas, Castoriadis, Giddens, and Alexander, fashioning a bridge between Continental thought, American philosophy, and contemporary sociology; he shows how the misapprehension and neglect of pragmatism has led to systematic deficiencies in contemporary social theory. From this skillful historical and theoretical analysis, Joas creates a powerful case for the enduring legacy of Peirce, James, Dewey, and Mead for social theorists today.
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Book Title: Pragmatism and Social Theory
Number of Pages: 280 Pages
Publication Name: Pragmatism and Social Theory
Language: English
Publisher: T.H.E. University of Chicago Press
Item Height: 229 mm
Subject: Sociology
Publication Year: 1993
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 414 g
Author: Hans Joas
Item Width: 153 mm
Format: Paperback
