Building a Social Democracy: The Promise of Rhetorical Pragmatism

by Robert Danisch

Building a Social Democracy offers an alternative intellectual history of American pragmatism, one that tries to reclaim the middle of the twentieth century in order to push neo-pragmatism beyond its philosophical limitations. Danisch argues that the major entailment of the invention of American pragmatism at the beginning of the twentieth century is that rhetorical practices are the rightful object of study and means of improving democratic life...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1498517773
• ISBN13: 9781498517775
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.1"