Philosophy Americana Making Philosophy at Home in American Culture
In this engaging book, Douglas Anderson begins with the assumption that philosophy—the Greek love of wisdom—is alive and well in American culture. At the same time, professional philosophy remains relatively invisible. Anderson traverses American life to find places in the wider culture where profes...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Fordham University Press
[2019]
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| Series: | American philosophy series ;
Numbero 18. |
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009431230306719 |
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Introduction: Inheritance, Teaching, and the Insane Angels of American Culture: Our Cultural Invisibility
- One. Some Preliminary Remarks on the Origins of Pragmatism
- Two. Royce, Philosophy, and Wandering: A Job Description
- Three. Wilderness as Philosophical Home
- Four. Working Certainty and Deweyan Wisdom
- Five. Wildness as Political Act
- Six. ‘‘After All, He’s Just a Man’’
- Seven. William James and the Wild Beasts of the Philosophical Desert
- Eight. John Dewey’s Sensible Mysticism
- Nine. ‘‘Born to Run’’
- Ten. Philosophy as Teaching
- Eleven. Learning and Teaching
- Twelve. Emerson’s Platonizing of American Thought
- Thirteen. American Loss in Cavell’s Emerson
- Fourteen. Emerson and Kerouac: Grievous Angels of Hope and Loss
- Fifteen. Pragmatic Intellectuals
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
