tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24152639.post6026935821489946470..comments2023-07-04T03:53:40.171-07:00Comments on Matt Kundert's Friday Experiment: Pragmatism as Enlightened RomanticismMatt Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05304261355315746372noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24152639.post-85241098629290818372015-02-15T09:49:15.762-07:002015-02-15T09:49:15.762-07:00Those look like interesting books; they might prov...Those look like interesting books; they might prove useful if I ever get around to incorporating D'Arcy McNickle into my work on American Romanticism. As it is, I'm afraid I don't have the time to look into them. I'm currently focused on writing my dissertation, which doesn't take me near enough in that direction. Likewise for Royce: despite Rorty's admiration for Royce, it just doesn't seem likely I'd be able to find a place for him. Somebody said to me the other day that Royce was a pragmatist, and that doesn't seem right to me at all. Royce had a lot of interesting commonalities with the classical pragmatists, like appreciation for Hegel, and I think it warrants study, but not common branding, at least not with that one. I'd be more disposed to calling Santayana a pragmatist than Royce. (Are you talking about the Rorty entry in the Library of Living Philosophers series that Auxier edited? I wouldn't call that writing a book on Rorty, though he did write an interesting preface to it.)Matt Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05304261355315746372noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24152639.post-56722173049729462212015-02-11T14:40:09.066-07:002015-02-11T14:40:09.066-07:00Matt,
I am currently reading one book, and have a...Matt,<br /><br />I am currently reading one book, and have another on order, on the primal (meaning Native American) roots of Pragmatism. Currently I'm reading Bruce Wilshire's Primal Roots of American Philosophy and I've got ordered through snail mail (why can't everything be in kindle format?? Why?) Scott Pratt's Native Pragmatism: Roots of American Philosophy. Pratt's book looks to be the most interesting to me as it is a lot more current and coincides with a rising tide of Royce scholarship. I just finished Randall Auxier's Time, Will and Purpose - the living ideas of Josiah Royce and a lot of that I wanted to bounce off of you. Hope you are well and can comment some on the books above. (Auxier wrote a book on Rorty, btw, read his wiki, I think you'll be intrigued)<br /><br />John<br />JChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04041645589713211894noreply@blogger.com