William James Pragmatism and American Culture

<p><i>William James Pragmatism and American Culture</i> focuses on the work of William James and the relationship between the development of pragmatism and its historical cultural and political roots in 19th-century America. Deborah Whitehead reads pragmatism through the intersecting themes of narrative gender nation politics and religion. As she considers how pragmatism helps to explain the United States to itself Whitehead articulates a contemporary pragmatism and shows how it has become a powerful and influential discourse in American intellectual and popular culture.</p>