Old Criticism and New Pragmatism.

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...

rhetorical criticism of "condensation" in some old and new translations of the holy quran

regarding the fact that many of the verses in the holy quran have been expressed in the form of condensation, the transfer of its very sense is an important issue in translations. this paper examines two old (sourabadi and meybodi) and six contemporary (ayati, elahi qomshei, ansari, saffarzadeh, fouladvand & makarem shirazi) persian translations of the holy quran and assesses the way in which t...

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...

Aesthetic Confusion: The Legacy of New Criticism

Jerome Bruner and William James Regarding Pragmatism ’ s Does Pragmatism

As its most basic mission, pragmatism sets out to determine an idea’s merit by examining its practical consequences, rather than through purely abstract evaluation. As a result of this emphasis on an idea’s effectiveness, the complex ways in which pragmatists conceive of abstract notions such as truth and self-concept are often overlooked. Close examination of the works of two pragmatist thinke...