John Rawls and American Pragmatism Between Engagement and Avoidance 1st Edition by Daniele Botti 9781498598323 1498598323

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• ISBN 10: 1498598323
• ISBN 13: 9781498598323
• Author: Daniele Botti

The textual and contextual connections between John Rawls’s intellectual figure and American pragmatism (broadly conceived) have become topics of discussion only recently. This is at least in part due to the fact that Rawls seemed to have taken a “pragmatic turn” in his intellectual trajectory—from A Theory of Justice (1971) to Political Liberalism (1993). John Rawls and American Pragmatism: Between Engagement and Avoidance intervenes in these discussions with two unconventional claims corroborated by archival research. First, Daniele Botti shows that Rawls’s thinking owes more to the American pragmatists’ views than is generally recognized. Second, and in the light of the pragmatist sources of Rawls’s thinking, Botti argues that we should reverse the common narrative about Rawls’s alleged pragmatic turn and interpret it as a quite “un-pragmatic” one. By making the case for interpreting Rawls as an American pragmatist, this book profoundly transforms not only a widely held interpretation about Rawls’s intellectual trajectory, but also our understanding of American philosophical vicissitude in the second half of the twentieth century.

Table contents:

PART ONE: RAWLS IN THE STRUGGLE OVER THE LEGACY OF PRAGMATISM
1 Pragmatism: Old Disagreements and the “Eclipse Narrative”
2 The Rorty Discussion
3 The Rorty Discussion, and Rawls
4 Rawls and Pragmatism: What Pragmatism?
PART TWO: THE PRAGMATIST SOURCES OF RAWLS’S THINKING
5 Induction and the Origins of Reflective Equilibrium
6 Rawls on Peirce, Putnam, and White
7 Rawls on Dewey before the “Dewey Lectures”
PART THREE: WHAT’S THE USE OF CALLING RAWLS A PRAGMATIST?
8 Rawlsian Suggestions on Rawls’s Neglected Pragmatism
9 The Historical Use of Calling Rawls a Pragmatist
10 The Philosophical Use of Calling the “Early” Rawls a Pragmatist
11 The Political Use of Calling Rawls a Pragmatist

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