Ever not quite: Unfinished theories, unfinished societies, and pragmatism

Race and Epistemologies of Ignorance

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 59-76

  Cormier, Harvey ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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1. The Marxist literature on this topic is almost unsurveyably vast. A brief introduction is found in the article "Base and Superstructure" in Larrain 1983a: 42-45.
2. the consequences of that idea for politics and (especially pragmatic) philosophy, at Cormier 2000: 155-80.
3. Rorty offers in "Feminism and Pragmatism" a nice statement of his program for getting philosophy out of the way. See Rorty 1998: 202-27.
4. Cormier 2000, ch. 6, for the details of James's views as West criticizes them.
5. Cavell, Stanley. 1990. Conditions Handsome and Unhandsome: The Constitution of Emersonian Perfectionism. Chicago: Chicago University Press.
6. Chomsky, Noam. 1986. Knowledge of Language. Westport, CT: Praeger.
7. Cormier, Harvey. 2000. The Truth Is What Works: William James, Pragmatism, and the Seed of Death. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
8. Eagleton, Terry. 1991. Ideology: An Introduction. London: Verso.
9. Emerson, Ralph Waldo. 1951 [1836-60]. Emerson's Essays. New York: Harper & Row.
10. Gramsci, Antonio. 1971 [1929-35]. Selections from the Prison Notebooks. Translated and edited by Quentin Hoare and Geoffrey Nowell Smith. New York: International Publishers.
11. James, William. 1977 [1909]. A Pluralistic Universe. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
12. Knobe, Joshua. 1995. "A Talent for Bricolage: An Interview with Richard Rorty." The Dualist 2: 56-71.
13. Larrain, Jorge. 1983a. "Base and Superstructure." In A Dictionary of Marxist Thought, ed. Tom Bottomore, Lawrence Harris, Victor G. Kiernan, and Ralph Miliband. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
14. Larrain, Jorge. 1983b. Marxism and Ideology. London: Hutchinson.
15. Mills, Charles. 1997. The Racial Contract. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
16. Mills, Charles. 1998. Blackness Visible. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
17. Mills, Charles. 2003. From Class to Race: Essays in White Marxism and Black Radicalism. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
18. Nietzsche, Friedrich. 1983 [1873-76]. Untimely Meditations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
19. Plekhanov, Georgi. 1992 [1908]. Fundamental Problems of Marxism. New York: International.
20. Rorty, Richard. 1982. Consequences of Pragmatism. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
21. Rorty, Richard. 1991. "The Professor and the Prophet." Transition 52: 70-78.
22. Rorty, Richard. 1998. Truth and Progress: Philosophical Papers, Volume 3. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
23. West, Cornel. 1989. The American Evasion of Philosophy: A Genealogy of Pragmatism. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.