PRAGMATISM READING LIST

Charles Sanders Peirce (1839 - 1914):

William James (1842 - 1910):

• Pragmatism: a New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking (1907)

• Principles of Psychology (1890):

  • Chapter X

  • "Stream of Thought"

Henry James (1843 - 1916):

• Preface to The Golden Bowl (1904)

• Preface to The Ambassadors (1903)

• Preface to The Princess Cassamassima (1886)

• "The Art of Fiction" (1884)

• Preface to The Portrait of a Lady (1881)

John Dewey (1859 - 1952):

• Experience and Nature (1925)

• Human Nature and Conduct (1922)

• Reconstruction in Philosophy (1920)

• "The Need for a Recovery of Philosophy" (1917)

George Herbert Mead (1863 - 1961):

• Mind, Self and Society (1934)

• “The Social Self” (1913)

• “Social Consciousness and the Consciousness of Meaning” (1910)

R. S. Crane (1886 - 1967):

• The Languages of Criticism and the Structure of Poetry (1953): "Towards a More Adequate Criticism of Poetic Structure"

• Critics and Criticism: Ancient and Modern (1952): "Introduction"

• "The Concept of Plot and the Plot of Tom Jones" (1950)

• "Critical and Historical Principles of Literary History" (1950)

• "History Versus Criticism in the Study of Literature" (1935)

Stephen C. Pepper (1889 - 1972):

• "Metaphor in Philosophy"  (1973)

• World Hypotheses: a Study in Evidence (1942)

Kenneth Burke (1897 - 1993):

• "Dramatism" (1967)

• "Terministic Screens" (1965)

• "Definition of Man" (1963-1964)

• "Kinds of Criticism" (1946)

• "The Five Master Terms, their Place in a 'Dramatistic' Grammar of Motives" (1943)

• "Symbolic Action in a Poem by Keats" (1943)

• "The Philosophy of Literary Form" (1941)

• "Four Master Tropes" (1941)

• "The Rhetoric of Hitler's Battle" (1939)

• "Literature as Equipment for Living" (1938)

• "Semantic and Poetic Meaning" (1938)

• "Twelve Propositions by Kenneth Burke on the Relation between Economy and Psychology" (1938)

• "Lexicon Rhetoricae" (1931)

• "Psychology and Form" (1925)

Richard McKeon (1900 - 1985):

• "The Philosophic Bases of Art and Criticism" (1943-1944)

Charles W. Morris (1903 - 1979):

• Signs, Language and Behavior (1946)

Nelson Goodman (1906 - 1998):

• Ways of Worldmaking (1978)

• Languages of Art: an Approach to a Theory of Symbols (1976)

C. Wright Mills (1916 - 1962):

• The Sociological Imagination (1959)

• "Methodological Consequences of the Sociology of Knowledge" (1940)

• “Language, Logic and Culture” (1939)

Wayne C. Booth (1921 - 2005):

• "Distance and Point of View: an Essay in Classification" (1961)

• The Rhetoric of Fiction (1961):
  • "General Rules, I" 'True Novels Must be Realistic.'"  23-64.
  • "General Rules II: ‘All Authors Should be Objective.’"  67-86.
  • "Types of Narration."  149-165.

Erving Goffman (1922 - 1982):

• Frame Analysis: an Essay on the Organisation of Experience (1974)

• Stigma: Notes on the Management of a Spoiled Identity (1963)

• The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (1956)

Thomas S. Kuhn (1922 - 1996):

• "Metaphor in Science" (1996)

• "Second Thoughts on Paradigms" (1974)

• "The Relations between History and History of Science" (1971)

• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962)

Ronald Dworkin (1931 - ):

• Law's Empire (1986)

• "Law as Interpretation" (1982)

Richard Rorty (1931 - ):

• Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity (1989)

• "Inquiry as Recontextualisation: an Anti-dualist Account of Interpretation" (1988)

• "Philosophy as Science, as Metaphor, and as Politics" (1988)

• "Science as Solidarity" (1987)

• "Texts and Lumps" (1985)

• "The Historiography of Philosophy: Four Genres" (1985)

• "Solidarity or Objectivity?" (1984)

• "Philosophy in America Today" (1982)

• "Method, Social Science and Social Hope" (1981)

• "Nineteenth Century Idealism and Twentieth Century Textualism" (1981)

• "Pragmatism, Relativism, and Irrationalism" (1980)

• Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (1979)

• "Philosophy as a Kind of Writing: an Essay on Derrida" (1978-1979)

• "Dewey's Metaphysics" (1977)

• "Professionalised Philosophy and Transcendentalist Culture" (1976)

• "Overcoming the Tradition: Heidegger and Dewey" (1976)

• "Keeping Philosophy Pure" (1976)

• "The World Well Lost" (1972)

Stanley Fish (1938 - ):

• "Critical Self-Consciousness, or Can We know What We're Doing" (1989)

• "Rhetoric" (1989)

• "Anti-Foundationalism, Theory Hope, and the Teaching of Composition" (1987)

• "With the Compliments of the Author: Reflections on Austin and Derrida" (1982)

• "Working on the Chain Gang: Interpretation in Law and Literature" (1982)

• "Demonstration versus Persuasion: Two Models of Critical Activity" (1980)

• "Is There a Text in this Class?" (1980)

• "What Makes an Interpretation Acceptable" (1980)

• "Normal Circumstances, Literal Language, Direct Speech Acts, the Ordinary, the Everyday, the Obvious, What Goes Without Saying, and Other Special Cases" (1978)

• "How to do Things With Austin and Searle: Speech-Act Theory and Literary Criticism" (1976)

• "Interpreting the Variorium" (1976)

• "How Ordinary is Ordinary Language?" (1973)

• "Literature in the Reader: Affective Stylistics" (1970)

Richard A. Posner (1939 - ):

• Law and Literature: a Misunderstood Relation.  1988. 

Cornel West (1953 - ):

Norman Friedman ( - ):

• "Forms of the Plot" (1955)
• "Point of View in Fiction: the Development of a Critical Concept" (1955)