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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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Anderson, Douglas R.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2006.
Edition:1st edition.
Series:American philosophy series ; no. 18.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Some preliminary remarks on the origins of pragmatism
  • Royce, philosophy, and wandering: a job description
  • Wilderness as philosophical home
  • Working certainly and Deweyan wisdom
  • Wildness as political act
  • "After all, he's just a man": the wild side of life in country music
  • William James and the wild beasts of the philosophical desert
  • John Dewey's sensible mysticism
  • "Born to run": male mysticism on the road
  • philosophy as teaching: James's "Knight errant," Thomas Davidson
  • Learning and teaching: gambling, love, and growth (with Michael Ventimiglia)
  • Emerson's platonizing of American thought
  • American loss in Cavell's Emerson
  • Emerson and Kerouac: Grievous angels of hope and loss
  • Pragmatic intellectuals: facing loss in the spirit of American philosophy.