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A prag.(letters to the editor)(Letter to the Editor)
After reading Michael Potemra's glowing review in NR of Louis Menand's The Metaphysical Club back in 2001, I bought the book and discovered that without knowing it I had been a Pragmatist all along. This realization led me to read Charles Peirce and William James especially. Today, I consider myself a conservative Pragmatist who agrees with Fr. Richard John Neuhaus and other conservative scholars that Pragmatism took a wrong turn with Dewey that has resulted in the impression that Pragmatists must be progressive politically. Exhibits A and B would be Richard Rorty and Cornel West.
To the extent that a person can speak intelligibly of Pragmatism as a single point of view or philosophy, it is not necessarily politically left or right. In fact, you could argue that as Dewey turned away from classical Pragmatism and toward progressive politics, he signaled that there is a more intimate relationship between Pragmatism and conservatism.
I had noodled around with a paper demonstrating the compatibility of the two when Jonah Goldberg's article against Pragmatism appeared in the May 23 issue ("The New-Time Religion"). I was dismayed. The article insists that Pragmatism and progressive politics go together like peanut butter and jelly, and that just ain't so.
It does not help matters that James can be characterized as inventing Pragmatism "to accommodate the belief that Darwin killed God." This phrase is unworthy of thinking ...
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- Law, Pragmatism, and Democracy.(Book Review)
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