Description: Proposes a recovery of pragmatism by way of "transitionalist" themes of temporality and historicity which flourish in the work of the early pragmatists and continue in contemporary neopragmatist thought.
Brief description: Colin Koopman (PhD, Philosophy, McMaster) is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Robert F. and Evelyn Nelson Wulf Professor of Humanities at the University of Oregon. He is the author of Pragmatism in Transition: Historicity and Hope in James, Dewey, and Rorty (Columbia, 2009) and Genealogy as Critique: Foucault and the Problems of Modernity (Indiana, 2013) and the coeditor (with Mike Sandbothe and Alexander Groschner) of Richard Rorty: From Pragmatist Philosophy to Cultural Politics (Bloomsbury, 2013); he has published articles in Critical Inquiry, Constellations, Philosophy & Social Criticism, Metaphilosophy, The Review of Metaphysics, The Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Contemporary Pragmatism, Foucault Studies, History of the Human Sciences, and elsewhere.
Review Quotes: This may be the best general book about pragmatism in a decade... essential-- "Choice"