Peirce's Pragmaticism
A Radical Perspective- Authors:
- Publisher:
- 2022
Summary
Praised by Bertrand Russell as “one of the most original minds” and “certainly the greatest American thinker ever,” Charles Sanders Peirce invented “pragmaticism.” Vulgarized by William James and others, Peirce’s revolutionary semiotic recognizes chance, fortuitous happenings, serendipity, in understanding lawful paradigm-shifts in history. Peirce’s thought envisions a process-oriented community of inquirers engaged in confronting urgent social problems by clarifying the groundwork of meanings, beliefs, purposes, ideologies. E. San Juan’s project seeks to excavate the radical resonance of Peirce’s desire for “concrete reasonableness,” an ideal realized in the philosopher’s endeavor to fuse scientific theory and collective praxis, nature and the universal human potential still chained in alienated labor. Peirce’s hypothesis of transforming the conduct of our lives remains not only to be analyzed and interpreted further but also tested in actual practice by future generations of inquirers and activists.
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Bibliographic data
- Copyright year
- 2022
- ISBN-Print
- 978-1-6669-1309-5
- ISBN-Online
- 978-1-6669-1310-1
- Publisher
- Lexington, Lanham
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 228
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Table of contents
- Contents No access
- Preface No access
- Pragmaticism as the Wager of Thought/Action No access Pages 1 - 28
- Toward Peirce’s Dialectic No access Pages 29 - 54
- Approaching Peirce’s Semiotics No access Pages 55 - 80
- Peirce/Marx No access Pages 81 - 106
- Adventures in the Realm of Signs No access Pages 107 - 146
- Peirce’s Esthetics No access Pages 147 - 172
- Prophetic Solidarity No access Pages 173 - 202
- References No access Pages 203 - 216
- Index No access Pages 217 - 226
- About the Author No access Pages 227 - 228





