This book explores the role that American pragmatism played in the development of social philosophy in 20th-century Europe.

Michael G. Festl is a professor of philosophy at the University of St. Gallen. Michael has been a guest researcher in Salzburg, Chicago, and Melbourne. He wrote a book on justice and edited a handbook on pragmatism. He lives with his wife and his four children near Lake Constance.

1. Pragmatism's Social Philosophy: New Tiles and New Currents

Michael G. Festl

Part A: Pragmatism and the Birth of Social Philosophy

I. Pragmatism and European Philosophy

2. Paul Carus and Pragmatism. A European Philosopher in America

James Campbell

3. An Ethics of Exemplarity: Emerson in Germany and the Existentialist Tradition

Dennis Sölch

4. "To make us think, in French, things which were very new". Jean Wahl and American Philosophy

Moritz Gansen

II. Pragmatism and European Sociology

5. Pragmatism and Sociology. The French Debate

Claude Gautier and Emmanuel Renault

6. From Pragmatic Maxim to Habit. A Theoretical and Methodological Framework through Peirce and Bourdieu

Simone Bernardi della Rosa

7. Florian Znaniecki and American Pragmatism: Mutual Inspirations

Agnieszka Hensoldt

III. Pragmatism Loved and Hated. The Case of the Frankfurt School

8. American Pragmatism, Sociology of Knowledge, and the Early Frankfurt School

Kenneth W. Stikkers

9. American Pragmatism and Frankfurt School Critical Theory: A Family Drama

Arvi Särkelä

10. Dewey, Ebbinghaus, and the Frankfurt School: A Controversy over Kant Neither Fought Out nor Exhausted

Cedric Braun

Part B: The Relevance of Pragmatism for Social Philosophy

IV. Pragmatism and Conflict

11. Racism, Colonialism, and the Crisis of Democracy. The Contributions of W.E.B. Du Bois

Shannon Sullivan

12. Dynamics of Interaction. What Pragmatism Can Teach Us About Social Conflicts and Their Escalation

Lotta Mayer

13. Addams and Gilman. The Foundations of Pragmatism, Feminism, and Social Philosophy

Núria Sara Miras Boronat

V. Pragmatism and the Public

14. Recent Problems of the Public

Henrik Rydenfelt

15. The Affective Side of Political Identities. Pragmatism, Populism, and European Social Theory

Matteo Santarelli and Justo Serrano Zamora

16. John Dewey's Economics. A Liberal Critique of Ordoliberalism

Christopher Gohl