Taking Emerson as his starting point, Cornel West\'s basic task in this ambitious enterprise is to chart the emergence, development, decline, and recent resurgence of American pragmatism.
West\'s "genealogy" is, ultimately, a very personal work, for it is imb.
Du Bois, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Lionel Trilling.
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Wright Mills, W.
John Dewey is the central figure in West\'s pantheon of pragmatists, but he treats as well such varied mid-century representatives of the tradition as Sidney Hook, C.
Taking Emerson as his starting point, Cornel West\'s basic task in this ambitious enterprise is to chart the emergence, development, decline, and recent resurgence of American pragmatism