John Ryder is Professor of Philosophy and the Director of International Programs, State University of New York, in Albany, New York. Recent publications include Interpreting America: Russian and Soviet Studies of the History of American Thought and The Philosophical Writings of Cadwallader Colden (with Scott Pratt).Emil Višňovský is Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Social and Biological Communication, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia. He is the coauthor of three books, and has translated into Slovak two anthologies on pragmatism and Dewey. His book (in Slovak) Pragmatism and Neopragmatism will be published in 2004.

• Foreword by Peter H. HarePreface by John Ryder and Emil VišňovskýPragmatism in its ContextsONE Joseph MARGOLIS: The Master Economies of PragmatismTWO John RYDER: American Philosophy in Post-Communist EuropeTHREE Emil VIŠŇOVSKÝ: Pragmatism and Our Cultural IdentityFOUR Jaroslav HROCH: American Pragmatism and Neo-Pragmatism in Their Affinities with European Philosophical HermeneuticsFIVE Etala FARKAŠOVÁ and Mariana SZAPUOVÁ: Chances for an Alliance Between Pragmatism and FeminismSIX Russell B. GOODMAN: Wittgenstein and James: Pragmatism and WillSEVEN Zdenka KALNICKÁ: Metaphors in Pragmatist Texts: What Can They Reveal About Their ValuesEIGHT Vladimír ZEMAN: Expectations Which Have Not Materialised? The Track Record of Pragmatism from Karel Čapek to Our TimesPragmatism in Culture and SocietyNINE James CAMPBELL: The Centrality of Community to DemocracyTEN Tom ROCKMORE: Rorty, Philosophy, and Social HopeELEVEN Michael ELDRIDGE: Pragmatism’s Elusive Life-Enhancing Social PhilosophyTWELVE Phillip McREYNOLDS: Dewey’s Ideal of Scientific Democracy: Where are We Headed?THIRTEEN Shannon SULLIVAN: Race, Space and Place: Deweyan Reflections on Racism and RomaPragmatism in Sciences and ArtsFOURTEEN Jane SKINNER: Rorty, Science and Meaning: The Dangers for DemocracyFIFTEEN Chet BOWERS: The Double Binds in using Dewey’s Epistemology to address Eco-Justice IssuesSIXTEEN Pedro RODRÍGUEZ: The Pragmatist Strikes Back: Rorty, Derrida and the “Literary” Critique of PostmodernismSEVENTEEN Giovanni MADDALENA: Abduction: A Bridge between Analytics and HermeneuticsEIGHTEEN Igor HANZEL: Hegel’s Science of Logic vs. Carnap’s Logic of Science: On the Conflict Between the Analytic and Dialectical Tradition in PhilosophyNINETEEN Krystyna WILKOSZEWSKA: Dewey’s Philosophy of Art as a Challenge for European AestheticsTWENTY Leszek KOCZANOWICZ and Agata SYPNIEWSKA: Aethetic Ethics: Self-Creation, Community and the OtherAbout the Editors and ContributorsIndex