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Recovering Overlooked Pragmatists in Communication

Extending the Living Conversation about Pragmatism and Rhetoric

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Editors:
  1. Robert Danisch

    1. Department of Communication Arts, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada

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  • Foregrounds pragmatist figures that are often ignored in the central scholarship to develop a deeper understanding of the meaning and importance of communication

  • Focuses on theory-building through diverse historical resources that hold the potential to help rethink the usefulness of the pragmatist tradition

  • Bridges the gaps between philosophy and rhetoric/communication

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. On the Uses and On-going Relevance of Pragmatism for Communication Studies

    • Robert Danisch
    Pages 1-22

  3. Richard McKeon in the Pragmatist Tradition

    • Peter Simonson
    Pages 23-51

  4. Hu Shi’s Search for the “Chinese Sophist” and “Spirit of Courageous Doubt”

    • Rya Butterfield
    Pages 53-78

  5. Echoes of Pragmatism in India: Bhimrao Ambedkar and Reconstructive Rhetoric

    • Scott R. Stroud
    Pages 79-103

  6. The Art of Adjustment: Ralph Ellison’s Pragmatist Critique of Irving Howe

    • Jansen B. Werner
    Pages 105-127

  7. Living Pragmatism: Alice Dewey’s Open-Minded Approach to Experiential Education and Cross-Cultural Immersion

    • Karen Shea, Krysten Manke
    Pages 129-155

  8. The Accidental Pragmatist: Jonathan Haidt’s Moral Psychology as Pragmatic Popular Science

    • Jeremy Smyczek
    Pages 157-176

  9. Jane Addams’ Rhetorical Ear: Teaching, Learning, and Listening in the Settlement House Model

    • Amy E. Dayton
    Pages 177-195

  10. Emergent Publics, Public Emergencies: The Importance of John Dewey in Jane Bennett’s Nonhuman Politics of Vital Materialism

    • Daniel P. Richards
    Pages 197-222

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 223-225
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About this book

This collection of essays engages with the current resurgence of interest in the relationship between American pragmatism and communication studies. The topics engaged in this collection of essays is necessarily diverse, with some of the figures discussed within often viewed as “minor” or ancillary to the main tradition of pragmatism. However, each essay attempts to show the value of reading these minor figures for philosophy and rhetorical studies. The diversity of the pragmatist tradition is evident in the ways in which unlikely figures like Hu Shi, Ambedkar, and Alice Dewey leverage some of the original commitments of pragmatism to do important intellectual, social, and political work within the circumstances that they find themselves. This collection of essays also serves as a reminder for how we might reimagine and reuse pragmatism for our own social and political projects and challenges.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Communication Arts, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada

    Robert Danisch

About the editor

Robert Danisch is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Waterloo, Canada. Danisch is a founder and international authority on “rhetorical pragmatism”—an ambitious re-imagining of what democracy can be in today’s urban, multicultural, and globalized world. He is author of Pragmatism, Democracy, and the Necessity of Rhetoric (2007) and Building a Social Democracy: The Promise of Rhetorical Pragmatism (2015).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Recovering Overlooked Pragmatists in Communication

  • Book Subtitle: Extending the Living Conversation about Pragmatism and Rhetoric

  • Editors: Robert Danisch

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14343-5

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-14342-8Published: 26 March 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-14343-5Published: 16 March 2019

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 225

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Cultural Theory, Pragmatism, Media and Communication, Communication Studies

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