Philosophy Americana making philosophy at home in American culture
Beginning with the assumption that philosophy - the Greek love of wisdom - is alive and well in American culture, this work traverses American life to find places in the wider culture where professional philosophy in the distinctively American tradition can strike up a conversation.
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Fordham University Press
2006.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | American philosophy series ;
no. 18. |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009439828706719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Philosophy Americana
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Some Preliminary Remarks on the Origins of Pragmatism
- Chapter 2: Royce, Philosophy, and Wandering
- Chapter 3: Wilderness as Philosophical Home
- Chapter 4: Working Certainty and Deweyan Wisdom
- Chapter 5: Wildness as Political Act
- Chapter 6: After All, He's Just a Man
- Chapter 7: William James and the Wild Beasts of the Philosophical Desert
- Chapter 8: John Dewey's Sensible Mysticism
- Chapter 9: Born to Run
- Chapter 10: Philosophy as Teaching
- Chapter 11: Learning and Teaching
- Chapter 12: Emerson's Platonizing of American Thought
- Chapter 13: American Loss in Cavell's Emerson
- Chapter 14: Emerson and Kerouac
- Chapter 15: Pragmatic Intellectuals
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
