The Arab world and pragmatism (Ch. S. Peirce as example)‎

Abstract EN

As paradoxical as it may seem, the forerunner of pragmatism, or rather “pragmaticism” as he later on came to call it, Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) has come to be known in the Arab World only half a century after his successors, namely William James (1842-1910) and John Dewey (1859-1952).

The Arabic philosophical essays that deal with pragmatism in general, date back only to the 1930's and do not exceed about ten.

As to those universities of the Arab World where this philosophical trend is more or less present today, they are very scarce 1 .

Such a state of affairs which is not necessarily typical of the Arab World seems much more inexplicable be it only regarding the increasing interest that the Arab World manifests, in the search process of its renewal particularly since World War II, towards America and her scientific and technological progress.