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Contents
Preface
Introduction: Pragmatism and Philosophy ii
“The World Wel Lose 3
Keeping Philosophy Pure: An Essay on Wittgenstein 19
(Overcoming the Tradition: Heidegger and Dewey 37
Professonalized Philosophy and Transcendentalist Caltre 60
Dewey's Metaphysics 72
Philosophy as Kind of Writing: An Essay on Derrida 90
1s There Problem about Fictional Discourse? 110
Nineteenth-Century Heals
and TwentethCentury Textoalism 139
Pragmatism, Relativism, and Iationalism 160
Cavell on Skepticism 176
Method, Social Science, and Social Hope 191
Philosophy in America Today. 210
Index 233