Recovering Pragmatism's Voice

Lenore Langsdorf is Professor of the Philosophy of Communication in the Speech Communication Department of Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Andrew R. Smith is Assistant Professor in the Speech and Communication Studies Department at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania.

• I. Introduction 1. The Voice of Pragmatism in Contemporary Philosophy of CommunicationLenore Langsdorf and Andrew R. Smith II. The Logic of Communication 2. Immediacy, Opposition, and Mediation: Peirce on Irreducible Aspects of the Communicative ProcessVincent M. Colapietro 3. From Enthymeme to Abduction: The Classical Law of Logic and the Postmodern Rule of RhetoricRichard L. Lanigan 4. On Ethnocentric Truth and Pragmatic JusticeAndrew R. Smith and Leonard Shyles III. The Ends of Communication 5. The "Cash-Value" of Communication: An Interpretation of William JamesIsaac E. Catt 6. Devising Ends Worth Striving For: William James and the Reconstruction of PhilosophyCharlene Haddock Seigfried IV. The Process of Communication 7. John Dewey and the Roots of Democratic ImaginationThomas M. Alexander 8. Pragmatism Reconsidered: John Dewey and Michel Foucault on the Consequences of InquiryFrank J. Macke V. The Effects of Communication 9. George Herbert Mead and the Many Voices of UniversalityMitchell Aboulafia 10. Philosophy of Language and Philosophy of Communication: Poiesis and Praxis in Classical PragmatismLenore Langsdorf VI. Neopragmatism and Communication 11. Talking-With as a Model for Writing-About: Implications of Rortyean PragmatismArthur P. Bochner and Joanne B. Waugh 12. Changing the Subject: Rorty and Contemporary Rhetorical TheoryJanet S. Horne 13. Icons, Fragments, and Ironists: Richard Rorty and Contemporary Rhetorical CriticismMick Presnell Notes Contributors Name Index Subject Index

"This collection supplies us with a nicely balanced set of perspectives—neither dismissive nor adulatory. In the crush of contemporaneity, it's good to have the historical framework reconstructed. And the emphasis on communication creates valuable insight." — Bruce Wilshire, Rutgers University