{"product_id":"pragmatism-a-reader-paperback","title":"Pragmatism: A Reader - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLouis Menand\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn invaluable resource--and an absorbing read--for everyone who is interested in the roots of American culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere are the major texts of American pragmatism, from William James, John Dewey, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Charles Sanders Peirce to Cornell West, Richard Rorty, Hilary Putnam, Richard Posner, and Richard Poirier, now collected and reprinted unabridged. All are remarkable for the wit and vigor of their prose and the mind-clearing force of their ideas. They reflect the vital role that pragmatism has played in almost every area of American intellectual and cultural life, inspiring judges, educators, politicians, poets, and social prophets.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eLOUIS MENAND is Professor of English at Harvard. His book \u003ci\u003eThe Metaphysical Club\u003c\/i\u003e (2001) won the Pulitzer Prize in History, the Francis Parkman Prize, and the Heartland Prize for Nonfiction. He is also the author of \u003ci\u003eAmerican Studies\u003c\/i\u003e (2002) and \u003ci\u003eDiscovering Modernism: T.S. Eliot and His Context\u003c\/i\u003e 91987; new edition 2004) and the editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Future of Academic Freedom \u003c\/i\u003e(1996). He was contributing editor of \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e from 1994 to 2001. Since 2001, he has been a staff writer at \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 560\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.94 x 8 x 5.22 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 07, 1997\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51775926829344,"sku":"9780679775447","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/c541779612ed62456e2f1452129a33c5.webp?v=1780468994","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/pragmatism-a-reader-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}