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With a diamond in my shoe : a philosopher's search for identity in America /
"In 1961, at the age of nineteen, Jorge J.E. Gracia escaped from the island of Cuba by passing himself off as a Catholic seminarian. He arrived in the United States with just a few spare belongings and his mother's diamond ring secured in a hole in one of his shoes. With a Diamond in My Sh...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
[2019]
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| Colección: | SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian thought and culture.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Contents; List of Illustrations; Prologue (2018); 1 Farewell to Cuba (1961); 2 Good Morning, America (1961-1962); 3 Hungry in Miami (1961); 4 A Gate to the Real America (1962); 5 Foreigner in a Foreign Land (1962-1965); 6 Surviving Evangelical Fundamentalism (1962-1965); 7 Knowing Myself (1962-1965); 8 Make Love, Not War (1965-1966); 9 Becoming a Medievalist (1966-1969); 10 Pilgrimage to Europe (1969-1971); 11 Landing a Job, with Verve (1971); 12 Buffalo Department of Philosophy (1971-1973); 13 The Vocation and Profession of Philosophy (1975)
- 14 Two Alternative Research Programs (1971-1974)15 Medieval Philosophy (1975-1985); 16 Latin American Philosophy in the United States (1939-1985); 17 From Rookie to Chair (1980-1986); 18 Beyond Medieval and Latin American Philosophy (1990-2000); 19 The Call of Ethnic, Racial, and National Identities (2000-present); 20 A Place for Literature and the Arts (2005-present); 21 From Hispanic to Latino and Latinx Philosophy (2000-present); 22 Return to Philosophy through Its History (1990-2000); 23 A Paradigm of Courage (1971-1976); Epilogue: With a Diamond in My Mind; Acknowledgments