Pragmatism as Transition

Colin Koopman is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Oregon and author of Genealogy as Critique: Foucault and the Problems of Modernity.

• Acknowledgments Introduction: What Pragmatism Does 1. Transitionalism, Meliorism, and Cultural Criticism 2. Transitionalism in the Pragmatist Tradition 3. Three Waves of Pragmatism 4. Knowledge as Transitioning 5. Ethics as Perfecting 6. Politics as Progressing 7. Critical Inquiry as Genealogical Pragmatism Notes Bibliography Index

This may be the best general book about pragmatism in a decade... essential Choice Pragmatism as Transition is one of those rare books that sets our thinking on a new track. Exhaustively researched, the book not only cuts through facile readings of pragmatism that deny to us its transformative possibilities, but the book wonderfully teases out pragmatism's perfectionist core that enables a more capacious political and ethical life. This is a significant contribution, especially to those interested in the creative work pragmatism makes possible. Bravo! -- Melvin L. Rogers, author of The Undiscovered Dewey: Religion, Morality, and the Ethos of Democracy Koopman's [Pragmatism as Transition] is surely an interesting book that pushes the fringes of the pragmatist tradition a bit further. European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy Clear, insightful, and ambitious... the book is exemplary in the best Emersonian sense. Metaphilosophy Well-written and valuable for students of American pragmatism. Foucault Studies