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Some historians have argued that pragmatism was a philosophical response to the horrors of the Civil War. The early pragmatists were veterans of that bloody conflict, and those who came later had seen siblings, parents, and neighbors wounded or killed.
Oct 21, 2024 · During the first quarter of the 20th century, pragmatism was the most influential philosophy in the United States, exerting an impact on the study of law, education, political and social theory, art, and religion. Six fundamental theses of this philosophy can be distinguished.
Oct 29, 2021 · Colin Koopman in his ‘transitional pragmatism’ (2009, 2013) responds by endorsing the side of Rorty's philosophy for which values are emphatically local, an expression of a particular political community.
- Matthew Festenstein
- 2021
Jun 16, 2011 · This response will clarify my ethical and theoretical concerns with the way in which mass intra-territorial armed violence has been studied recently, and then reinforce my proposed warrant for a pragmatic (read: political) turn in the civil war/new war debate.
- Jacob Mundy
Aug 16, 2008 · As the progressive Deweyan ‘New Deal’ era passed away and the US moved into the Cold War, pragmatism’s influence was challenged, as analytic philosophy blossomed and became the dominant methodological orientation in most Anglo-American philosophy departments.
Jan 25, 2022 · He argues that pragmatism arose after the Civil War because that unprecedentedly bloody conflict filled its children with a dread of non-negotiable moral principles, the kind that had motivated the fervid Great-Awakened abolitionists and eventually the Boston Brahmins themselves—from the complacent Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., to the avant ...
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a pragmatic (read: political) turn in the civil war/new war debate.This intervention will conclude by suggesting that the present debate highlights the need for a third estate in political studies, one that operates between political science and political theory: politiography. Keywords civil war, new wars, violence, politiography, pragmatism
