A review by djoshuva
The American Evasion of Philosophy: A Genealogy of Pragmatism by Cornel West

4.0

"The fundamental argument of this book is that the evasion of epistemology-centered philosophy—from Emerson to Rorty— results in a conception of philosophy as a form of cultural criticism in which the meaning of America is put forward by intellectuals in response to distinct social and cultural crises. In this sense, American pragmatism is less a philosophical tradition putting forward solutions to perennial problems in the western philosophical conversation initiated by Plato and more a continuous cultural commentary or set of interpretations that attempts to explain America to itself at a particular historical moment."