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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 prof...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Fordham University Press,
[2019]
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| Colección: | American Philosophy
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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