Pragmatism As Post-Postmodernism

Larry A. Hickman is director of the Center for Dewey Studies and Professor of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.

"Larry A. Hickman is one of the best interpreters of the American pragmatic tradition, especially the thought of John Dewey. In this collection of essays, he presents a vigorous, lively, and lucid defense of the relevance and importance of pragmatism for dealing with some of the most pressing and complex issues of our time-including technology, the environment, and globalization. He persuasively argues that classical pragmatism is "waiting at the end of the road" traveled by modernist and postmodernist thinkers." -- -Richard J. Bernstein New School for Social Research "Larry Hickman has here reinvented John Dewey and pragmatism, this time in the postmodern context. No one does better than Hickman in translating the implications of pragmatism into its contemporary relevance. And here the romps through technology and the Critical Theorists, issues of the environment and the chapters on Dewey himself are lively and revealing." -- -Don Ihde Stony Brook University "... A critical discussion about the complex relation between philosophical postmodernism and classical pragmatism." -Educational Theory "A much needed contribution to the philosophical literature on pragmatism." -- -Michael Eldridge University of North Carolina "Ties a rigorous discussion of complicated philosophical disputes to their usefulness and worth in real-world issues such as global citizenship, religious disputes, and cultural conflict." -- -Charlotte Haddock Seigfried Purdue University "While Pragmatism as Post-Postmodernism indeed connects the philosophical schools of thought referenced in its title, potential readers should be advised that Hickman also provides one of the best analyses of recent work on technology and environmental philosophy currently available. No where else is the work of contemporary figures such as Rolston, Callicott, Norton, Feenberg and Borgmann so well addressed, and to have a critical study that engages all of these figures between two covers represents an intellectual windfall of the first order." -- -Paul B. Thompson Michigan State University "In these wide-ranging essays, Larry Hickman demonstrates once again his deep knowledge of Dewey's philosophy. He brings Dewey's voice into the very midst of many of today's most urgent debates about how to interpret and respond to our human condition." -- -David T. Hansen Columbia University