A Natural History of Pragmatism: The Fact of Fe. Richardson Hardcover<|

A Natural History of PragmatismThe Fact of Feeling from Jonathan Edwards to Gertrude Stein\nAuthor(s): Joan Richardson\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521837484, 978-0521837484\nSynopsis\nJoan Richardson provides a fascinating and compelling account of the emergence of the quintessential American philosophy: pragmatism. She demonstrates pragmatism's engagement with various branches of the natural sciences and traces the development of Jamesian pragmatism from the late nineteenth century through modernism, following its pointings into the present. Richardson combines strands from America's religious experience with scientific information to offer interpretations that break new ground in literary and cultural history. This book exemplifies the value of interdisciplinary approaches to producing literary criticism. In a series of highly original readings of Edwards, Emerson, William and Henry Jame.