Pragmatism and European Social TheoryPatrick Baert, Bryan S. Turner Pragmatism and European Social Theory questions the assertion that American pragmatism was committed to clarity and simplicity of its ideas, in contrast to European social theory, seen by its critics as deliberately vague, abstract and obscure by showing how pragmatism influenced both classical and modern social theory. |
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List of Contributors | 6 |
Patrick Baert | 45 |
The Relevance of Peirce for Social Science | 69 |
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