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Pragmatism in the Americas

Gregory Fernando Pappas

Abstract

In the last ten years, investigators worldwide have focused on the connections between the philosophy of classical figures in American pragmatism (e.g., William James, Charles Peirce, and John Dewey) and the Hispanic world. This book documents the results of this new and thriving area of research, while also functioning as a primer hopefully to guide and provoke further inquiry. This book is divided into three parts, according to three different types of inquiry in this new area of research. The reception of the classical American Pragmatists within the Hispanic world is explored. Some of the ... More

Keywords: pragmatism, American philosophy, Latin American philosophy, Hispanics, John Dewey

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2011 Print ISBN-13: 9780823233670
Published to Fordham Scholarship Online: January 2012 DOI:10.5422/fordham/9780823233670.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Gregory Fernando Pappas, editor
Department of Philosophy, Texas A&M University

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Dedication

Preface

Introduction

Gregory Fernando Pappas

Part One The Reception of the Classical American Pragmatists in the Hispanic World

One John Dewey in Spain and in Spanish America

Antón Donoso

Two Pragmatism in Brazil

Marcus Vinicius da Cunha, and Débora Cristina Garcia

Three Charles Peirce and the Hispanic World

Jaime Nubiola

Four John Dewey and the Legacy of Mexican Pragmatism in the United States

Ruben Flores

Part Two Hispanic Philosophers and the Philosophy of Pragmatism

Five The Neglected Historical and Philosophical Connection between José Ingenieros and Ralph Waldo Emerson

Manuela Alejandra Gomez

Six The Pragmatism of Eugenio d'Ors

Marta Torregrosa

Seven Pedro Zulen and the Reception of Pragmatism in Peru

Pablo Quintanilla

Eight Vaz Ferreira as a Pragmatist

Paloma Pérez-ilzarbe

Nine Dewey and Ortega on the Starting Point

Douglas Browning

Ten Was Risieri Frondizi a Hispanic Pragmatist?

Gregory Fernando Pappas

Eleven The Latino Character of American Pragmatism

Gregory Fernando Pappas

Twelve Leopoldo Zea, Stanley Cavell, and the Seduction of “American” Philosophy

Carlos Alberto Sanchez

Part Three Pragmatism as a Resource in the Hispanic Experience of the Twenty-first Century

Thirteen Pragmatic Pluralism, Multiculturalism, and the New Hispanic

José Medina

Fourteen Pragmatism, Latino Intercultural Citizenship, and the Transformation of American Democracy

José-Antonio Orosco

Fifteen Understanding Immigration as Lived Personal Experience

Daniel Campos

Sixteen Dewey and Latina Lesbians on the Quest for Purity

Gregory Fernando Pappas

Seventeen Dewey and Martí

Alejandro Strong

Eighteen Dewey's and Freire's Pedagogies of Recognition

Kim Díaz

Nineteen Religiously Binding the Imperial Self

Alexander V. Stehn

End Matter

Contributors

American Philosophy