Pragmatism, Nation, and Race

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Pragmatism's engagement with contemporary American issues

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Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction: Community in the Age of Empire	p. 1
Transformative Communities and Enlarged Loyalties
When Philosophy Paints Its Blue on Gray: Irony and the Pragmatist Enlightenment	p. 19
The Unexamined Frontier: Dewey, Pragmatism, and America Enlarged	p. 46
Pragmatism and Solidarity with the Past	p. 73
Mead on Cosmopolitanism, Sympathy, and War	p. 89
Deliberating about the Past: Decentering Deliberative Democracy	p. 110
The Racial Nation
Race, Nation, and Nation-State: Tocqueville on (U.S.) American Democracy	p. 127
William James on Nation and Race	p. 142
Race, Culture, and Black Self-Determination	p. 163
Prophetic Vision and Trash Talkin': Pragmatism, Feminism, and Racial Privilege	p. 186
The Tragedy and Comedy of Empire
The Unpredictable American Empire	p. 209
Transcending the "Gory Cradle of Humanity": War, Loyalty, and Civic Action in Royce and James	p. 222
Pragmatism and War	p. 242
Laughter Against Hubris: A Preemptive Strike	p. 254
Interview with Cornel West, Conducted	p. 279
Bibliography	p. 297
List of Contributors	p. 311
Index	p. 315
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