Genealogical Pragmatism

John J. Stuhr is Director of the Humanities Center and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oregon. He is the author of John Dewey, editor of Classical American Philosophy: Essential Readings and Interpretive Essays; and coeditor of Private Morals and Public Interest: Ethics in Government and Public Service; Morals and the Media: Information, Entertainment, and Manipulation; and Ethics and Free Enterprise: The Social Responsibility of Business.

• Preface Acknowledgments I.  Philosophy 1. The Humanities, Inc. 2.  Do American Philosophers Exist? Visions of American Philosophy and Culture 3.  Re-Visioning Philosophy and the Organization of Knowledges 4.  Pragmatism versus Fundamentalism 5.  The Idols of the Twilight: Pragmatism and Postmodernism II.  Experience 6.  Rorty as Elvis: Dewey's Reconstruction of Metaphysics 7.  Experience and the Adoration of Matter: Santayana's Unnatural Naturalism 8.  Socrates and Radical Empiricism 9.  Chronophobia 10.  Taking Time Seriously III. Community 11.  Theory, Practice, and Community in Peirce's Normative Science 12.  Bodies, Selves, and Individuals: Personalism and Pragmatism 13.  Education and the Cultural Frontier: Community, Identity, and Difference 14.  Community, Economic Growth, and Family Income: It's the Community, Stupid! 15.  Persons, Pluralism, and Death: Toward a Disillusioned Pragmatism Index