Pragmatism, Politics, and Perversity - 9780739173633

Pragmatism, Politics, and PerversityDemocracy and the American Party Battle\nAuthor(s): Joseph L. Esposito\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Lexington Books\nISBN-13: 9780739173633, 978-0739173633\nSynopsis\nThe political project of pragmatism has focused primarily on its defense of democracy as the best political system to maintain and improve human well-being over lifetimes and generations. Pragmatism Politics and Perversity: Democracy and the American Party Battle describes this project of Peirce, Dewey, Hook, and Rorty, and combines it with Charles Beards study of the party battle as the most determinative influence upon American democracy. The book updates and confirms Beards hypothesis that the history of the party battle is a chronicle of perverse schemes and self-inflicted wounds the most salient to date being the American Civil War because it reflects a ceaselessly disruptive contest over the creation of two largely incompati.