Critical Pragmatism: Peirce and Marcuse on the Socio-Political Influences on Human Development in Advanced Industrial Societies

My dissertation brings together representatives from two otherwise antagonistic traditions: Charles Peirce of the pragmatists and Herbert Marcuse of the critical theorists. I demonstrate the affinities between the two philosophers with a focus on their contributions to socio-political thought in advanced industrial societies. After addressing the antagonisms between the two traditions I offer a reading that allows for a Peircean complement to Marcuse's One-Dimensional Man and a Marcusean complement to Peirce's critique of the "method of authority" in his seminal essay, "The Fixation of Belief."

Name thesis:degree_name

PhD

Level thesis:degree_level

Immediate Access

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Philosophy

Year dc:date.available

2015

Author dc:creator

• Smith, Clancy

Contributors dc:contributor

• James Swindal
• George Yancy
• Tom Eyers

• Critical
• Marcuse
• Peirce
• Pragmatism
• Theory

Language dc:language

English

Repository record dc:identifier

https://dsc.duq.edu/etd/1219

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dsc.duq.edu:etd-2235