实用主义是现代西方哲学和社会思潮中的一个重要流派。它于19世纪末在美国产生,到20世纪,很快成为一种世界性的哲学思潮。实用主义虽曾遭到过严厉的批判,但直至今日,这种思潮仍然有较广阔的市场和众多的信从者,甚至还有不断漫延之势。像已崩溃了的前苏联和东欧诸国自不必说,就像中国这个自1949年新中国成立之后,一直以马列主义毛泽东思想为指导,几十年间一贯对实用主义嗤之以鼻并严厉批判的国度, Pragmatism is an important genre in modern Western philosophy and social thought. It was produced in the United States at the end of the 19th century and soon became a worldwide philosophical trend by the 20th century. Although pragmatism has been severely criticized, but up to now, this trend still has a broader market and many followers, and even continued to extend the trend. Needless to say, like the collapsed Soviet Union and Eastern European countries, just like China, a country that has lashed out and severely criticized pragmatism for decades under the guidance of Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought since the founding of new China in 1949,