HISTORY

 

ANCIENT THOUGHT (c.700 BCE-300 CE):
   Classical Literature

 

MEDIEVAL THOUGHT (c.300-c.1400):
   Medieval Literature

 

RENAISSANCE THOUGHT (c.1400-c.1600):

   Renaissance Literature

 

EARLY MODERN THOUGHT (c.1600-c.1785):
   Neoclassical Literature

 

NINETEENTH CENTURY THOUGHT:
   Romanticism (1785-1830):
      Romantic Literature
   Mid-Century/Fin de Siècle (1830-1900):
      'Victorian' Literature

 

TWENTIETH CENTURY THOUGHT:
   Analytic Philosophy

   Continental Theory:
      Idealism

      Marxism

      Phenom., Existent., Hermeneutics

      Psychoanalysis

      (Post-)Structuralisms:

         Deconstruction

         Deleuzean Theory

         Dialogism (Bakhtin Circle)

         Foucauldian Discourse Theory

         Semiology / Structuralism

         Structuralist Marxism

         Structuralist Psychoanalysis

   Modernism, Myth & New Criticism

   Pragmatism

 

   Feminist Theory

   Post-colonial Theory

 

   Twentieth Century Literature

 

REGIONS

 

AFRICAN AND AFRICAN DIASPORIC THOUGHT:

   Literature

 

ASIAN THOUGHT:

   Central Asia

   East Asian Thought:

      Literature

   South Asian Thought:

      Literature

   South-East Asia

 

AUSTRALASIAN THOUGHT:

   Literature

 

CANADIAN THOUGHT:

   Literature

 

CARIBBEAN THOUGHT:

   Literature

 

EUROPEAN THOUGHT:

   Central Europe

   Eastern Europe:

      Russia:

        Literature

   Northern Europe:

      Literature

   Southern Europe:

      Greece:

         Literature

      Italy:

         Literature

      Spain:

         Literature

   Western Europe:

      France:

         Literature

      Germany:

         Literature

      UK and Eire:

         Literature

 

LATIN AMERICAN THOUGHT:

   Literature

 

MIDDLE EASTERN THOUGHT:

   Arabic/Islamic Thought:

      Literature

   Israeli/Jewish Thought:

      Literature

 

USA: AMERICAN THOUGHT:

   Literature

   African American Thought:

      Literature

   Native American Thought

 

TOPICS

 

ARTS:

   Architecture
   Arts, Visual and Plastic

   Film

   Literature:

      Author

      Literary Form & Genre:

         Drama

         Poetry

         Prose

      Literary History, Intertextuality, Canon.

      Metaliterature

      Reader

      Representation

   Music
   Other Media (e.g. Photography)

 

BEING

 

COMMUNICATION:

   Discourse Studies
   Philosophy of Language & Logic
   Linguistics

   Rhetoric & Argumentation Theory

   Semiotics

 

   Language and Literature

 

EDUCATION

 

HISTORY

 

THE HUMAN BEING (BODY, MIND, SELF):

   Medical Humanities
   Philosophy of Mind & Cognitive Science

   Psychology

 

   Gender

   Race

   Sexuality

 

   Literature, the Mind & the Self

 

KNOWLEDGE

  

PRAGMATISM
NEO-ARISTOTELIANISM (THE CHICAGO SCHOOL)

SUB-PAGES

Feminist:

Post-colonial / African American:

Related Pages:

ASSOCIATIONS

CONFERENCES

2009:

  • Pragmatism and Science, Center for Inquiry Transnational, Amherst, New York, June 19-20
  • Pragmatism, Science and Naturalism, Nordic Pragmatism Network, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, May 14-15
  • Pragmatism and the Ethics of War, Society for Classical Pragmatism Studies, University of South Florida, March 5-7

2008:

2007:

  • Pragmatism: a Living Tradition, NEH Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers, University of New Mexico, June 17-July 20

  • Pragmatism and Quantum Mechanics, CREA -- École Polytechnique and CNRS, Paris, February 22-23

  • Pragmatism and Evolutionary Biology, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, February 16-17

2006:

  • The Philosophy of Pragmatism: Religious Premises, Moral Issues and Historical Impact, Faculty of European Studies, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, September 28-29

  • Agency, Inference, and the Origins of Analytic Philosophy, Third Meeting on Pragmatism, Departamento de Filosofía, Universidad de Granada, April 12-19

2005:

2004:

  • Hilary Putnam's Pragmatism, Second Meeting on Pragmatism, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, May 13-14

2003:

2002:

2001:

2000:

  • Pragmatism and Values, Central European Pragmatist Forum, Slovak Academy of Sciences, May 29-June 1

Other Listings:

COURSES

JOURNALS

PHILOSOPHERS / THEORISTS

Literary Theorists:

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:
  • Anthologies:
    • Goodman, Russell B., ed.  Pragmatism: Critical Concepts in Philosophy.  4 Vols.  London: Routledge, 2005.
    • Goodman, Russell B., ed.  Pragmatism: a Contemporary Reader.  London: Routledge, 1995.
    • Haack, Susan, ed.  Pragmatism Old and New: Selected Writings.  Amherst, NY: Prometheus, 2006.
    • Kautzer, Chad, and Eduardo Mendieta, eds.  Pragmatism, Nation, and Race: Community in the Age of Empire.  Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2009.
    • Menand, Louis, ed.  Pragmatism: a Reader.  New York: Vintage, 1997.
    • Mulvaney, Robert J., and Philip M. Zeltner, eds.  Pragmatism: its Sources and Prospects.  Columbia: U of South Carolina P, 1981.

    • Rorty, Amelie, ed.  Pragmatic Philosophy.  New York: Doubleday, 1966.

    • Stuhr, John, ed.  Pragmatism and Classical American Philosophy: Essential Readings and Interpretive Essays.  Oxford: OUP, 2000.
    • Thayer, H. Standish, ed.  Pragmatism: the Classic Writings.  1970.  Rpt. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1982.

    • Arts:

      • Mitchell, W. J. T., ed.  Against Theory: Literary Study and the New Pragmatism.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1985.

      • Poirier, Richard, and Reuben Brower, eds.  In Defense of Reading: a Reader's Approach to Literary Criticism.  1963.

      • Neo-Aristotelianism:

        • Crane, R. S., ed.  Critics and Criticism: Ancient and Modern.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1952.  Abridged Edition, 1957.

    • Being:

      •  

    • Communication:

    • Human Nature:

      • Gender:

      • Race:

      • Sexuality:

    • Knowledge:

      •  

    • Morality:

      •  

    • Nature:

      •  

    • Philosophy / Theory:

    • Religion:

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    • Society:

      • Dickstein, Morris, ed.  The Revival of Pragmatism: New Essays on Social Thought, Law, and Culture.  Durham: Duke UP, 1998.

  • Selected Individual Works:

    • Debrock, Guy.  Process Pragmatism: Essays on a Quiet Philosophical Revolution.  Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2003.

    • Hickman, Larry A.  Philosophical Tools for Technological Culture: Putting Pragmatism to Work.  Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2001.

    • Hildebrand, David L.  "Avoiding Wrong Turns: a Philippic against the Linguistification of Pragmatism."  Dewey, Pragmatism, and Economic Methodology.  Ed. Elias L. Khalil.  London: Routledge, 2004.

    • Stuhr, John.  Genealogical Pragmatism: Philosophy, Experience and Community.  Albany: SUNY Press, 1997.

    • Arts:
      • Gunn, Giles.  Beyond Solidarity: Pragmatism and Difference in a Globalized World.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2001.
      • Gunn, Giles.  Thinking across the American Grain: Ideology, Intellect, and the New Pragmatism. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1992.
      • Gunn, Giles.  The Culture of Criticism and the Criticism of Culture.  Oxford: OUP, 1987.
      • Hildebrand, David L.  "Pragmatism and Literary Criticism."  REAL: Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature.  Berlin: de Gruyter, 1999.
      • Hyman, Stanley Edgar.  The Tangled Bank: Darwin, Marx, Frazer and Freud as Imaginative Writers.  1961.
      • Hyman, Stanley Edgar.  The Armed Vision: a Study in the Method of Modern Scholarship.  New York: Knopf, 1948.
      • Poirier, Richard.  The Performing Self: Compositions and Decompositions in the Languages of Contemporary Life.  Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers UP, 1992.
      • Poirier, Richard.  Poetry and Pragmatism.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1992.
      • Poirier, Richard.  The Renewal Of Literature: Emersonian Reflections.  New York: Random House, 1987.
      • Poirier, Richard.  World Elsewhere: the Place of Style in American Literature.  Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1985.
      • Poirier, Richard.  Robert Frost: the Work of Knowing.  Stanford: Stanford UP, 1977.
      • Poirier, Richard.  The Comic Sense of Henry James: a Study of the Early Novels.  1960.

      • Neo-Aristotelianism:

        •  

    • Being:

      •  

    • Communication:

      • Boersema, David.  Pragmatism and Reference.  Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008.

      • Craig, Robert T.  "Pragmatism in the Field of Communication Theory."  Communication Theory 17.2 (2007): .

      • Danish, Robert.  Pragmatism, Democracy, and the Necessity of Rhetoric.  Columbus: U of South Carolina P, 2007.

      • Mailloux, Steven.  Rhetorical Power.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1989.

    • Human Nature:

      • Gender:

      • Race:

      • Sexuality:

    • Knowledge:

      • Levi, Issac.  The Enterprise of Knowledge: an Essay on Knowledge, Credal Probability and Chance.  Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1980.
      • Levi, Issac.  Gambling with Truth.  New York: Knopf, 1967.

      • Hookway, Christopher.  Truth, Rationality and Pragmatism.  Oxford: OUP, 2000.

    • Morality:

      •  

    • Nature:

      •  

    • Philosophy / Theory:

      • Stuhr, John.  Pragmatism, Postmodernism and the Future of Philosophy.  London: Routledge, 2002.

    • Religion:

      • Anderson, Victor.  Pragmatic Theology: Negotiating the Intersections of an American Philosophy of Religion and Public Theology.  Albany: SUNY Press, 1998.

    • Society:

      • Danisch, Robert.  Pragmatism, Democracy, and the Necessity of Rhetoric.  Columbus: U of South Carolina P, 2007.

      • Green, Judith M.  Pragmatism and Social Hope: Deepening Democracy in Global Contexts.  New York: Columbia UP, 2008.

      • Talisse, Robert B.  A Pragmatist Philosophy of Democracy.  London: Routledge, 2007.

      • Talisse, Robert B.  Democracy after Liberalism.  London: Routledge, 2005.

      • Westbrook, Robert B.  Democratic Hope: Pragmatism and the Politics of Truth.  Ithaca: Cornel UP, 2005.

On-Line:

  • Archives:
  • Selected Indidvidual Works:
    • Hildebrand, David L.: The Neopragmatist Turn Southwest Philosophy Review 19.1 (2003): .

    • Arts:

    • Being:

      •  

    • Communication:

    • Human Nature:

      • Gender:

      • Race:

      • Sexuality:

    • Knowledge:

      •  

    • Morality:

      •  

    • Nature:

      •  

    • Philosophy / Theory:

    • Religion:

      •  

    • Society:

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:
  • Anthologies:

    • General:

      • Critchley, Simon, ed.  Deconstruction and Pragmatism.  London: Routledge, 1996.

      • De Tienne, Andre, and John Shook, eds.  The Cambridge School of Pragmatism.  Bristol: Thoemmes, 2006.
      • Hollinger, Robert, and David Depew, eds.  Pragmatism: from Progressivism to Postmodernism.  Westport, CT: Praeger, 1999.
      • Lamberth, David C., ed.  James and Royce Reconsidered: Reflections on the Centenary of Pragmatism.  2009.
      • Mailloux, Steven, ed.  Rhetoric, Sophistry, Pragmatism.  Cambridge: CUP, 1995.

      • Misak, Cheryl, ed.  New Pragmatists.  Oxford: OUP, 2007.

      • Olin, D., ed.  Pragmatism in Focus.  London: Routledge, 1992.

      • Shook, John, and Joseph Margolis, eds.  Companion to Pragmatism.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2006.

      • Shusterman, Richard, ed.  The Range of Pragmatism and the Limits of Philosophy.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2004.

    • Arts:

      • Wolfreys, Julian, ed.  Modern North American Criticism and Theory.  Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2006.

      • Neo-Aristotelianism:

        • Special Issue on Chicago School.  Profession 82 (1982).

    • Being:

      •  

    • Communication:

      • Mailloux, Steven, ed.  Rhetoric, Sophistry, Pragmatism.  Cambridge: CUP, 1995.

    • Education:

      • Troehler, D., and J. Oelkers, eds.  Pragmatism and Education.  Sense, 2006.

    • Human Nature:

      • Gender:

      • Race:

      • Sexuality:

    • Knowledge:

      • Olsson, Erik J., ed.  Knowledge and Inquiry: Essays on the Pragmatism of Isaac Levi.  Cambridge: CUP, 2006.

    • Morality:

      •  

    • Nature:

      •  

    • Philosophy / Theory:

    • Religion:

      •  

    • Society:

      • Brint, Michael, ed.  Pragmatism in Law and Society.  Boulder, CO: Westview, 1991.

  • Selected Individual Works:
    • General:
      • Aune, Bruce.  Rationalism, Empiricism, and Pragmatism: an Introduction.  New York: Random House, 1988.
      • Ayer, A. J.  The Origins of Pragmatism: Studies in the Philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce and William James.  New York: Macmillan, 1968.
      • Clarke, David S.  Some Pragmatist Themes.  Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2007.
      • Conkin, Paul K.  Puritans and Pragmatists: Eight Eminent American Thinkers.  Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1968.
      • Copleston, Frederick C.  Modern Philosophy: Empiricism, Idealism, and Pragmatism in Britain and America.  Vol. 8 of A History of Philosophy.  New York: Newman, 1966.
      • De Waal, Cornelius.  Pragmatism.  2005.
      • Diggins, John Patrick.  The Promise of Pragmatism: Modernism and the Crisis of Knowledge and Authority.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1995. 
      • Diggins, John Patrick.  The Problem of Pragmatism.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1994.

      • Eames, S. Morris.  Pragmatic Naturalism.  Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois UP, 1977.

      • Feffer, Andrew.  The Chicago Pragmatists and American Progressivism.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1993.

      • Fisch, Max.  "American Pragmatism Before and After 1898."  Peirce, Semeiotic, and Pragmatism.  Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1986.  283-304.

      • Hamner, M. Gail.  American Pragmatism: a Religious Genealogy.  Oxford: OUP, 2003.

      • Hildebrand, David L.  Beyond Realism and Antirealism: John Dewey and the Neopragmatists.  Memphis: Vanderbilt UP, 2003.

      • Livingston, James.  Pragmatism, Feminism, and Democracy: Rethinking the Politics of American History.  London: Routledge, 2001.

      • Livingston, James.  Pragmatism and the Political Economy of Cultural Revolution, 1850-1940.  Durham: U of North Carolina P, 1997.

      • Lovejoy, Arthur O.  "The Thirteen Pragmatisms."  Journal of Philosophy 5 (1908): 5-39.

      • Margolis, Joseph.  The Unraveling of Scientism: American Philosophy at the End of the Twentieth Century.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2003.

      • Margolis, Joseph.  Reinventing Pragmatism: American Philosophy at the End of the Twentieth Century.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2002.

      • Margolis, Joseph.  Pragmatism without Foundations: Reconciling Realism and Relativism (The Persistence of Reality).  Oxford: Blackwell, 1986.

      • McCarthy, E. Doyle.  "Self-Knowledges: the American Tradition."  Knowledge as Culture: the New Sociology of Knowledge.  London: Routledge, 1996.  64-84.

      • McDermid, Douglas.  Varieties of Pragmatism.  London: Continuum, 2008.

      • Menand, Louis.  The Metaphysical Club: a Story of Ideas in America.  New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2002.

      • Moore, E. C.  American Pragmatism: Peirce, James, and Dewey.  New York: Columbia UP, 1961.

      • Morris, Charles.  The Pragmatic Movement in American Philosophy.  New York: George Braziller, 1970.

      • Mounce, H. O.  The Two Pragmatisms: from Peirce to Rorty.  London: Routledge, 1997.

      • Murphy, John P.  Pragmatism: from Peirce to Davidson.  Boulder, CO: Westview, 1990.

      • Richardson, Joan.  A Natural History of Pragmatism: the Fact of Feeling from Jonathan Edwards to Gertrude Stein.  Cambridge: CUP, 2007.

      • Riley, I. Woodbridge.  American Thought from Puritanism to Pragmatism and Beyond.  New York: Henry Holt, 1923.

      • Rockmore,Tom.  "On Classical and Neo-Analytic Forms of Pragmatism."  Metaphilosophy 36.3 (2005): 259-271.

      • Rucker, Darnell.  The Chicago Pragmatists.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1969.

      • Scheffler, I.  Four Pragmatists.  London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1974.

      • Sleeper, Ralph W.  The Necessity of Pragmatism.  New Haven: Yale UP, 1986.

      • Smith, John.  Purpose and Thought: the Meaning of Pragmatism.  New Haven: Yale UP, 1978.

      • Talisse, Robert B., and Scott F. Aikin.  Pragmatism: a Guide for the Perplexed.  London: Continuum, 2008.

      • Thayer, H. S.  Meaning and Action: a Critical History of Pragmatism.  New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1968.  Rpt. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1981.

      • Tiles, J. E.  "American Pragmatism: Peirce to Rorty."  The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia of Continental Philosophy.  Ed. Simon Glendenning.  Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 1999.  239-

      • Wilshire, Bruce W.  The Primal Roots of American Philosophy: Pragmatism, Phenomenology and Native American Thought.  University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 2000.

    • Arts:
      • Leitch, Vincent.  American Literary Criticism from the Thirties to the Nineties.  New York: Columbia UP, 1988 
      • Lentricchia, Frank.  After the New Criticism.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1980.
      • Wellek, Rene.  American Criticism, 1900-1950.  Vol. 6 of A History of Modern Criticism, 1750-1950.  8 Vols.  New Haven: Yale UP, 1986.

      • Neo-Aristotelianism:

        • Booth, Wayne.  "Between Two Generations: the Heritage of the Chicago School."  Profession 82 (1982): 19-26.

        • Corman, Brian.  "Chicago Critics."  Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism.  Ed. Michael Groden and Martin Kreiswirth.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1994.  143-145.

        • Leitch, Vincent B. "The Chicago School."  American Literary Criticism from the 30s to the 80s.  New York: Columbia UP, 1988.  60-81.

        • McKeon, Richard.  "Criticism and the Liberal Arts: the Chicago School of Criticism."  Profession 82 (1982): .

        • Ransom, John Crowe.  "Humanism at Chicago."  Kenyon Review 14 (1952): .

        • Richter, David H.  "The Second Flight of the Phoenix: Neo-Aristotelianism Since Crane."  Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 23 (1982): 27-48.

        • Sprinker, Michael.  "What is Living and What is Dead in Chicago Criticism."  boundary 2 (1985): 189-212.

        • Vivas, Eliseo.  "The Neo-Aristotelians of Chicago."  Sewanee Review 52 (1944): .

        • Wimsatt, W. K.  "The Chicago Critics: the Fallacy of the Neoclassic Species."  The Verbal Icon: Studies in the Meaning of Poetry.  Lexington: U of Kentucky P, 1954.  41-65.

    • Being:

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    • Communication:

      • Innis, Robert E.  Pragmatism and the Forms of Sense: Language, Perception, Technics.  University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 2002.

    • Education:

      • Biesta, Gert J., and Nicholas C. Burbules.  Pragmatism and Educational Research.  Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2004.

    • Human Nature:

      • Gender:

      • Race:

      • Sexuality:

    • Knowledge:

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    • Morality:

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    • Nature:

      • Weiner, Philip.  Evolution and the Founders of Pragmatism.  Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1949.

    • Philosophy / Theory:

    • Religion:

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    • Society:

      • Festenstein, Matthew.  Pragmatism and Political Theory: from Dewey to Rorty.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1997.

      • Joas, Hans.  Pragmatism and Social Theory.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1993.

      • Kloppenberg, James.  Uncertain Victory: Social Democracy and Progressivism in European and American Thought, 1870-1920.  Oxford: OUP, 1986.

      • Lewis, J. David.  American Sociology and Pragmatism: Mead, Chicago Sociology, and Symbolic Interaction.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1981.

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