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The drama of possibility : experience as philosophy of culture /
Tracing the trajectory of the author's philosophical career through a selection of his essays, this book addresses specific issues in American thought and culture. It constitutes a mosaic of his philosophy, showing its roots in an American conception of experience.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2007.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | American philosophy series (Unnumbered)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- An American angle of vision. ; Poem: Roots/Edges ; Threadbare crape: Reflections on the American strand ; An American angle of vision, part 1 ; An American angle of vision, part 2 ; Spires of influence: The importance of Emerson for classical American philosophy ; Josiah Royce's philosophy of the community: Danger of the detached individual ; Possibility or else! The philosophy of William James
- Environing. Poem: The Professional Tin Cup ; A relational world: The significance of the thought of William James and John Dewey for global culture ; Nature nostalgia and the city: An American dilemma ; Space, time, and touch: Philosophical dimensions of urban consciousness ; Glass without feet: Dimensions of urban aesthetics
- Turning. Poem: Waiting ; Why bother: Is life worth living? Experience as pedagogical ; Ill-at-ease: The natural travail of ontological disconnectedness ; "Turning" backward: The erosion of moral sensibility ; The inevitability of our own death: The celebration of time as a prelude to disaster ; Isolation as starvation: John Dewey and a philosophy of the handicapped
- Bequeathing. Poem: Deadlines ; Hast any philosophy in thee, shepherd? ; The cultural immortality of philosophy as human drama ; To be human is to humanize: A radically empirical aesthetic ; Experience grows by its edges: A phenomenology of relations in an American philosophical vein ; The aesthetic drama of the ordinary
- Teaching. Poem: Lurking ; The gamble for excellence: John Dewey's pedagogy of experience ; Liberty and order in the educational anthropology of Maria Montessori ; The erosion of face-to-face pedagogy: A jeremiad ; Cultural literacy: A time for a new curriculum ; Trumping cynicism with imagination.