Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal

Pragmatic Naturalism: John Dewey’s Living Legacy, by Richard J. Bernstein

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Richard J. Bernstein is Vera List Professor of Philosophy at The New School for Social Research. He is the author, most recently, of Why Read Hannah Arendt Now? (Polity, 2018), Ironic Life (Polity, 2016), Violence: Thinking without Banisters (Wiley, 2013), and The Pragmatic Turn (Polity, 2010). Among his other publications are Radical Evil: A Philosophical Interrogation (Polity, 2002), Freud and the Legacy of Moses (Cambridge University Press, 1998), Hannah Arendt and the Jewish Question (MIT Press, 1996), Beyond Objectivism and Relativism: Science, Hermeneutics, and Praxis (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1983), and Praxis and Action: Contemporary Philosophies of Human Activity (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1971).

Richard J. Bernstein, “Pragmatic Naturalism: John Dewey’s Living Legacy,” in “100 Years of Philosophy at the New School,” special issue, Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 40:2 (2019), pp. 527–94.

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