Recovering Overlooked Pragmatists in Communication (eBook)

Robert Danisch is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Waterloo, Canada. Danisch is a founder and international authority on “rhetorical pragmatism”—an ambitious re-imagining of what democracy can be in today’s urban, multicultural, and globalized world. He is author of Pragmatism, Democracy, and the Necessity of Rhetoric (2007) and Building a Social Democracy: The Promise of Rhetorical Pragmatism (2015).

1. On the Uses and On-going Relevance of Pragmatism for Communication Studies (Robert Danisch)2. Richard McKeon in the Pragmatist Tradition (Peter Simonson)3. Hu Shi’s Search for the “Chinese Sophist” and “Spirit of Courageous Doubt” (Rya Butterfield)4. Echoes of Pragmatism in India: Bhimrao Ambedkar and Reconstructive Rhetoric (Scott R. Stroud)5. The Art of Adjustment: Ralph Ellison’s Pragmatist Critique of Irving Howe (Jansen B. Werner)6. Living Pragmatism: Alice Dewey’s Open-Minded Approach to Experiential Education and Cross-Cultural Immersion (Karen Shea & Krysten Manke)7. The Accidental Pragmatist: Jonathan Haidt’s Moral Psychology as Pragmatic Popular Science (Jeremy Smyczek)8. Jane Addams’ Rhetorical Ear: Teaching, Learning, and Listening in the Settlement House Model (Amy E. Dayton)9. Emergent Publics, Public Emergencies: The Importance of John Dewey in Jane Bennett’s Nonhuman Politics of Vital Materialism (Daniel P. Richards)