Pragmatism, Nation, and Race

Chad Kautzer is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado Denver.Eduardo Mendieta is Professor of Philosophy at Stony Brook University. He is editor of Latin American Philosophy (IUP, 2003).

Pragmatism, Nation, and Race is an anthology that is as rare as it is important. Its essays cohere so seamlessly that the work reads more like a transcript of a single conversation than fourteen voices speaking to related themes. . . . This work offers such clear illuminations of fundamental concepts and current problems that it is an essential text for any scholar of pragmatism, critical race theory, post-colonialism, or American politics. . . . No matter your views on pragmatism, foreign policy, or America's status as an empire, a democracy, or both, parts of this work will irk you, others will uplift you, but every part will reward you.February 16, 2010(Teachers College Record)

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Community in the Age of EmpireChad Kautzer and Eduardo MendietaPart 1. Transformative Communities and Enlarged Loyalties 1. When Philosophy Paints Its Blue on Gray: Irony and the Pragmatist EnlightenmentRobert Brandom2. The Unexamined Frontier: Dewey, Pragmatism, and America EnlargedDavid H. Kim3. Pragmatism and Solidarity with the PastMax Pensky4. Mead on Cosmopolitanism, Sympathy, and War Mitch Aboulafia5. Deliberating about the Past: Decentering Deliberative DemocracyJames BohmanPart 2. The Racial Nation6. Race, Nation, and Nation-State: Tocqueville on (U.S.) American DemocracyLucius T. Outlaw, Jr.7. William James on Nation and RaceHarvey Cormier8. Race, Culture, and Black Self-DeterminationTommie Shelby9. Prophetic Vision and Trash Talkin': Pragmatism, Feminism, and Racial PrivilegeShannon SullivanPart 3. The Tragedy and Comedy of Empire10. The Unpredictable American EmpireRichard Rorty 11. Transcending the "Gory Cradle of Humanity": War, Loyalty, and Civic Action in Royce and JamesEduardo Mendieta12. Pragmatism and WarRobert Westbrook13. Laughter against Hubris: A Preemptive StrikeCynthia WillettInterview with Cornel West, Conducted by Eduardo MendietaBibliographyList of ContributorsIndex