Acknowledgments

Introduction: Pragmatism Then and Now / Morris Dickstein
What Difference Does Pragmatism Make? The View From Philosophy

Pragmatism as Romantic Polytheism / Richard Rorty

Pragmatism and Realism / Hilary Putnam

Response to Hilary Putnam’s “Pragmatism and Realism” / Sidney Morgenbesser

The Moral Impulse / Ruth Anna Putnam

What’s the Use of Calling Emerson a Pragmatist? / Stanley Cavell
Pragmatism and the Remaking of Social Thought

Pragmatism: An Old Name for Some New Ways of Thinking? / James T. Kloppenberg

Pragmatism and Democracy: Reconstructing the Logic of John Dewey’s Faith / Robert B. Westbrook

Community in the Pragmatic Tradition / Richard J. Bernstein

Another Pragmatism: Alain Locke, Critical “Race” Theory, and the Politics of Culture / Nancy Fraser

Going Astray, Going Forward: Du Boisian Pragmatism and Its Lineage / Ross Posnock

The Inspiration of Pragmatism: Some Personal Remarks / Hans Joas

The Missing Pragmatic Revival in American Social Science / Alan Wolfe

Pragmatism and Its Limits / John Patrick Diggins
Pragmatism and Law

Pragmatic Adjudication / Richard A. Posner

Freestanding Legal Pragmatism / Thomas C. Grey

What’s Pragmatic about Legal Pragmatism? / David Luban

Pragmatism and Law: A Response to David Luban / Richard Rorty

It’s a Positivist, It’s a Pragmatist, It’s a Codifier! Reflections on Nietzsche and Stendhal / Richard H. Weisberg

Pragmatism, Pluralism, and Legal Interpretations: Posner’s and Rorty’s Justice without Metaphysics Meets Hate Speech / Michael Rosenfeld
Pragmatism, Culture, and Art

Why Do Pragmatists Want to Be Like Poets? / Richard Poirier

Pragmatists and Poets: A Response to Richard Poirier / Louis Menand

The Novelist of Everyday Life / David Bromwich

When Mind Is a Verb: Thomas Eakins and the Work of Doing / Ray Carney

Religion and the Recent Revival of Pragmatism, Giles Gunn

Afterword

Truth and Toilets: Pragmatism and the Practices of Life / Stanely Fish

Selected Bibliography

Contributors

Index