TY - JOUR
T1 - Telling tales out of school
T2 - Pragmatic reflections on philosophical storytelling
AU - Colapietro, Vincent M.
PY - 2013/5/29
Y1 - 2013/5/29
N2 - This article offers a critique of a deeply engrained tendency to narrate the story of American pragmatism exclusively or primarily in terms of modern European philosophy. While it suggests alternative stories, it is principally a metanarrative, an intentionally polemical story about our entrenched habits of philosophical storytelling. Indeed, the pragmatics of storytelling merits, especially in reference to historical accounts of American pragmatism, critical attention. The seemingly simple question, "What are we doing when we tell the story of this movement in this manner rather than that?" is a truly important one. It is also an avowedly pragmatic question.
AB - This article offers a critique of a deeply engrained tendency to narrate the story of American pragmatism exclusively or primarily in terms of modern European philosophy. While it suggests alternative stories, it is principally a metanarrative, an intentionally polemical story about our entrenched habits of philosophical storytelling. Indeed, the pragmatics of storytelling merits, especially in reference to historical accounts of American pragmatism, critical attention. The seemingly simple question, "What are we doing when we tell the story of this movement in this manner rather than that?" is a truly important one. It is also an avowedly pragmatic question.
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U2 - 10.1353/jsp.2013.0000
DO - 10.1353/jsp.2013.0000
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84878127059
SN - 0891-625X
VL - 27
SP - 1
EP - 32
JO - Journal of Speculative Philosophy
JF - Journal of Speculative Philosophy
IS - 1
ER -