New Pragmatism versus New Nationalism

New Approaches to Nationalism

Whatever nationalism is, whether ideology, civic religion, popular sentiment, or mass psychosis, its influence on modern society, politics, and art has been profound, perhaps more influential than the political movements of liberalism, fascism, and communism, all of which it underlay, interacted with, and powerfully defined. Whether analysts view nationalism as a beneficial or detrimental histo...

China’s New Nationalism

From Nationalism to Pragmatism: IT Policy in China

Since 1978 China has been transforming its centrally-planned socialist economy into a more mixed market system. China has also largely abandoned its nationalist technology strategy aimed at achieving self-reliance in favor of a more pragmatic strategy of importing advanced technologies and directing domestic R&D toward commercial purposes. This change has been evident in China's policies toward...

Between old and new: Brandom’s analytic pragmatism

1 Introduction Robert Brandom's follow-up to the monumental Making it Explicit 1 —in anticipation of which many have waited with baited breath—has finally appeared. Between Saying and Doing 2 is the text of his John Locke Lectures, delivered at the University of Oxford in 2006. Although Brandom is keen to insist that the two enterprises the books contain 'are largely orthogonal', many of the pr...

Pragmatism and Ethnicity: Critique, Reconstruction, and the New Hispanic

In this essay I examine the contributions of the pragmatist tradition to the philosophy of ethnicity. From the pragmatist philosophies of Dewey and Locke I derive a reconstructive model for the clarification and improvement of the life experiences of ethnic groups. Addressing various problems and objections, I argue that this Deweyan and Lockean reconstructive model rejects any sharp separation...