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Pragmatism and Justice
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Pragmatism and Justice
Edited by Susan Dieleman,
David Rondel,
and Christopher Voparil
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Title: Pragmatism and justice / edited by Susan Dieleman, David Rondel,
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CONTENTS
Permissions ix
Abbreviations xi
Contributors xiii
Introduction: Perspectives on Pragmatism and Justice 1
Susan Dieleman, David Rondel, and Christopher Voparil
PART I The Pragmatist Turn to Justice
CHAPTER 1 Justice as a Larger Loyalty 21
Richard Rorty
CHAPTER 2 Abnormal Justice 37
Nancy Fraser
CHAPTER 3 Pragmatism’s Contribution to Nonideal Theorizing:
Fraser, Addams, and Rorty 65
Christopher Voparil
CHAPTER 4 Empirical Approaches to Problems of Injustice:
Elizabeth Anderson and the Pragmatists 81
Gregory Fernando Pappas
CHAPTER 5 Ideal and Actual in Dewey’s Political Theory 97
Matthew Festenstein
CHAPTER 6 Justice in Context 115
Ruth Anna Putnam
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CHAPTER 7 Realism, Pragmatism, and Critical Social
Epistemology 129
Susan Dieleman
PART II Resisting Oppression and Injustice
CHAPTER 8 Social Inequality, Power, and Politics: Intersectionality
in Dialogue with American Pragmatism 147
Patricia Hill Collins
CHAPTER 9 Pragmatism and Radical Social Justice: Dewey,
Du Bois, and Davis 163
V. Denise James
CHAPTER 10 Contesting Injustice: Why Pragmatist Political
Thought Needs Du Bois 179
Colin Koopman
CHAPTER 11 Pragmatism, Racial Injustice, and Epistemic
Insurrection: Toward an Insurrectionist
Pragmatism 197
José Medina
CHAPTER 12 An Aesthetics of Resistance: Deweyan Experimentalism
and Epistemic Injustice 215
Paul C. Taylor
CHAPTER 13 Setting Aside Hope: A Pragmatist Approach to
Racial Justice 231
Shannon Sullivan
PART III Pragmatism, Liberalism, and Democracy
CHAPTER 14 Reconsidering Deweyan Democracy 249
Hilary Putnam
CHAPTER 15 Dewey and the Problem of Justice 265
Peter T. Manicas
CHAPTER 16 Pragmatism, Democracy, and the Need for a Theory
of Justice 281
Robert B. Talisse
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CHAPTER 17 A Pragmatist Account of Legitimacy and Authority:
Holmes, Ramsey, and the Moral Force of Law 295
Cheryl Misak
CHAPTER 18 William James on Justice and the Sacredness
of Individuality 309
David Rondel
Index 325
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PERMISSIONS
Richard Rorty, “Justice as a Larger Loyalty,” pp. 9– 22 in Ron Bontekoe and
Marietta Stepaniants (eds.), Justice and Democracy: Cross- Cultural
Perspectives, © 1997 by University of Hawaii Press. Reprinted with
permission from the University of Hawaii Press.
Nancy Fraser, “Abnormal Justice,” Critical Inquiry 34:3 (2008): 393– 422,
© 2008 by the University of Chicago. Reprinted with permission from
the University of Chicago Press.
Ruth Anna Putnam, “Justice in Context,” Southern California Law Review
63:6 (1990): 1797–1810. Reprinted with permission of the Southern
California Law Review.
Patricia Hill Collins, “Social Inequality, Power, and Politics: Intersectionality
and American Pragmatism in Dialogue,” Journal of Speculative
Philosophy 26:2 (2012): 442– 457.
Hilary Putnam, “A Reconsideration of Deweyan Democracy,” Southern
California Law Review 63:6 (1990): 1671–1697. Reprinted with per-
mission of the Southern California Law Review.
Peter T. Manicas, “John Dewey and the Problem of Justice,” Journal
of Value Inquiry 15:4 (1981): 279– 291, © 1981 Martinus Nijhoff
Publishers, The Hague. Reprinted with kind permission of Springer
Science+Business Media.
