New Essays on Social Thought, Law, and Culture
by
Stanley Fish, Fredric Jameson, Richard Rorty
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 1998
Although long considered the most distinctive American contribution to philosophy, pragmatism—with its problem-solving emphasis and its contingent view of truth—lost popularity in mid-century after the advent of World War II, the horror of the Holocaust, and the dawning of the Cold War. Since...