Pragmatism As Post-Postmodernism by Larry A. Hickman - 9780823228423

Pragmatism As Post-PostmodernismLessons from John Dewey\nAuthor(s): Larry A. Hickman\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Fordham University Press, United States\nImprint: Fordham University Press\nISBN-13: 9780823228423, 978-0823228423\nSynopsis\nLarry A. Hickman presents John Dewey as very much at home in the busy mix of contemporary philosophyas a thinker whose work now, more than fifty years after his death, still furnishes fresh insights into cutting-edge philosophical debates. Hickman argues that it is precisely the rich, pluralistic mix of contemporary philosophical discourse, with its competing research programs in French-inspired postmodernism, phenomenology, Critical Theory, Heidegger studies, analytic philosophy, and neopragmatismall busily engaging, challenging, and informing one anotherthat invites renewed examination of Dewey's central ideas.\n Hickman offers a Dewey who both anticipated some of the central insights of French-inspired postmodernism and, if he were alive today.