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A work which addresses the question: What constructive role can pragmatism play, either in structuring public debate or in dealing with life?. The contributors examine what pragmatism can offer in the way of a positive social programme in the field of law and political science.

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• Acknowledgments(p. xi)
• Introduction(p. 1)
• Part 1 What Difference Does Pragmatism Make to Law and Society?(p. 7)
• 1 What Good is Legal Pragmatism?(p. 9)
• Notes(p. 26)
• 2 What Has Pragmatism to Offer Law?(p. 29)
• 3 Almost Pragmatism: The Jurisprudence of Richard Posner, Richard Rorty, and Ronald Dworkin(p. 47)
• 4 Comment on Paper by Stanley Fish(p. 83)
• 5 The Banality of Pragmatism and the Poetry of Justice(p. 89)
• 6 """"Just Do It"""": Pragmatism and Progressive Social Change(p. 99)
• 7 The Limits of Neopragmatism(p. 121)
• 8 The Pragmatist and the Feminist(p. 127)
• Rorty, Radicalism, Romanticism: The Politics of the Gaze(p. 155)
• 10 Civic Identity and the State: From Hegel to Jane Addams . . . and Beyond(p. 181)
• 11 Punishment and Legitimacy(p. 197)
• 12 A Reconsideration of Deweyan Democracy(p. 217)
• Part 2 Pragmatism, Judicial Decisionmaking, and Constitutional Interpretation(p. 245)
• 13 In Context(p. 247)
• Notes(p. 270)
• 14 Situated Decisionmaking(p. 275)
• 15 A Multiple Choice Test: How Many Times Has the U.S. Constitution Been Amended? (a) 14; (b) 26; (c) 420 ± 100; (d) All of the Above(p. 295)
• 16 The Price of Metaphysics: Deadlock in Constitutional Theory(p. 311)
• 17 Practice, Purpose, and Interpretive Controversy(p. 338)
• Notes(p. 341)
• 18 Is Legal Originalism Compatible with Philosophical Pragmatism?(p. 343)
• 19 Pragmatism, Right Answers, and True Banality(p. 359)
• Selected Bibliography(p. 389)
• About the Book and Editors(p. 395)
• About the Contributors(p. 397)
• Index(p. 399)

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William Weaver was born on July 24, 1923. During World War II, he joined the American Field Service and was sent to Africa and then to Italy as an ambulance driver. As a senior at Princeton University, he had a short story published in Harper's Bazaar. After graduation, he taught at the University of Virginia for a year before returning to Italy.

He was a translator of modern Italian literature into English. He translated the works of numerous authors including Italo Calvino, Umberto Eco, Giorgio Bassani and Primo Levi. He also studied opera and wrote several books on the subject including The Golden Century of Italian Opera from Rossini to Puccini. He taught at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York in the 1990s. He died on November 12, 2013 at the age of 90.

(Bowker Author Biography)