The forum at the Library went pretty well today, I believe. When the conversation between Kloppenberg, Kuklick, and Westbook expanded to include the audience, there was definitely an intellectual energy that I found welcome. It brought me back to the excitement I felt when I first started studying pragmatism, and felt like I had found philosophical work that had some of the resources I was looking for. So I feel fortunate to have had a chance to help out with the event. It also left me thinking that there’s a useful purpose to this site, in getting some of these ideas out into the electronic conversation. Since I finished the dissertation, I think I’ve been taking the pragmatist background of the site more for granted and occasionally bringing it up in reference to particular issues. So I’m going to try to balance those posts out with the occasional re-visit to some of the important themes and texts in the pragmatist democratic tradition. We’ll see how that goes.
