| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.4

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Book Review

Reverence for the Relations of Life: Re-imagining Pragmatism via Josiah Royce's Interactions with Peirce, James, and Dewey. By Frank M. Oppenheim. (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005. xxii, 498 pp. $68.00, ISBN 0-268-04019-2.)
This volume is not a work of history, but rather a lengthy appreciation of the philosopher Josiah Royce. Frank M. Oppenheim, a professor of American philosophy at Xavier University (Cincinnati, Ohio), has specialized in Royce for many years. The book has three parts in which the author compares Royce to Charles Peirce, then to William James, and finally to John Dewey. The treatments are comparable. Each part mixes biographical information on each thinker and analysis of contrasting doctrines. A final portion of each part—in which Oppenheim makes his own extended judgments and evaluations of the worth of what Royce, Peirce, James, or Dewey has to say on a subject—dominates. The author surveys the connection of the philosophers' views to larger questions of American society and relates their views to deeper issues of religion and the meaning of life.	1
Readers must appraise the author's reflections in the light of their own knowledge and values, but Oppenheim's aim is clear. He wants to establish a Roycean vision of America and to suggest how the United States might live up to that vision, and he wants to reconfigure Royce in the canon of great American thinkers.	. . .

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