This was the book which confirmed my hunch that there was something wrong with the anti-intellectual right's appeal to pragmatism. It convinced me that it really didn't know what it was talking about and was a tool of its opposition.
This gallery includes my favorite chapters from the book:
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Well , after several decades you still don't get it.
Pragmatism got Pragmatism wrong !!!
THe Father of Pragmatism is C S Peirce and he was so disgusted with P. (which he fathered) that he changed the name to Pragmaticism
Progressivism got things still more wrong.
As to blaming the right, you should know that it was the left , most especially James and Dewey , that screwed things up and they are undeniable LEFT !!!
C S Peirce was a very devout and very orthodox CHRISTIAN
He despised the Left's appropriation of Darwin
“the Gospel of Greed.” Peirce points out the occurrence of such selfish, greed-based thinking in the modern politico-economical structures, and in Darwin’s biological principle of natural selection based on the competition of private interests.
Finally, Peirce would not accept a speck of your politics
"Peirce was, furthermore, explicit about this being a conservative doctrine: “ . . . true conservatism, I say, means not trusting to reasonings about questions of vital importance but rather to hereditary instincts and traditional sentiments.”6“The opinion prevalent among radicals that conservatives, and sentimentalists generally, are fools is only a cropping-out of the tendency of men to conceited exaggeration of their reasoning powers.”7
Collected Works Vol 1.662.
