Format:
Online-Ressource (xi, 294 p)
Edition:
1st ed
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
142947890X
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9781429478908
Series Statement:
American philosophy series no. 18
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-288) and index
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Some preliminary remarks on the origins of pragmatismRoyce, 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.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0823225526
Additional Edition:
ISBN 082322550X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0823225518
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780823225521
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780823225507
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780823225514
Additional Edition:
Print version Philosophy Americana
Language:
English
URL:
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