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Community of Inquiry : Conversations Between Classical American Philosophy and American Literature.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Kent State University Press,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Halftitle Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The Philosophical Climate in Turn-of-the-(Last)-Century America; Part I: Stephen Crane: Metaphysical, Epistemological, and Ethical Pluralism; 1. Spectators and/or Participants: Crane on Epistemological Privilege; 2. "In the Depths of a Coal Mine": Crane's Metaphysics of Experience; 3. Ethical Tolerance and Sociological Savvy: Crane's Travels in Mexico; 4. "Matters of Conscience" and "Blunders of Virtue": Crane on the Varieties of Heroism, or Why Moral Philosophers Need Literature.
- 5. Human Solidarity in an Indifferent Universe: Crane's HumanismPart II: William Dean Howells and Harold Frederic: Ethical and Religious Pragmatism; 6. Nineteenth-Century Business Ethics and The Rise of Silas Lapham; 7. Howells's Ethical Exegesis in The Rise of Silas Lapham; 8. Fakes and Good Frauds: Pragmatic Religion in The Damnation of Theron Ware; Part III: William James, Theodore Roosevelt, Jack London, and Frank Norris: Heroism and the Strenuous Mood; 9. Public Policy and Philosophical Critique: The James-and-Roosevelt Dialogue on Strenuousness.
- 10. The Strenuous Mood: London's The Sea-Wolf and James on Saints and Strongmen11. London's "South of the Slot" and James's "The Divided Self"; 12. Muscular and Moral Heroism in Norris's A Man's Woman; Part IV. Willa Cather, John Steinbeck, and Norman Maclean: Temperament, Memory, Community, and Work; 13. Philosophical Pragmatism and Theological Temperament: The Religious and the Miraculous in Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop; 14. Cather's Phenomenology of Memory and James's "Specious Present"; 15. Tools, Work, and Machines in Cather's One of Ours.
- 16. Creating Community: Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath and Royce's Philosophy of Loyalty17. Human Dignity, the Need for Community, and "the Duty of the Writer to Lift Up": Steinbeck's Philosophy of Work; 18. Work, Friendship, and Community in Maclean's A River Runs Through It; Appendix: Suggestions for Further Reading and American Philosophy Critical Edition Projects; Index.