UID:
almahu_9949519462302882
Format:
1 online resource (308 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-8232-3550-5
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0-8232-4831-3
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0-8232-2552-6
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1-4294-7890-X
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:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Philosophy Americana -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Some Preliminary Remarks on the Origins of Pragmatism -- Chapter 2: Royce, Philosophy, and Wandering -- Chapter 3: Wilderness as Philosophical Home -- Chapter 4: Working Certainty and Deweyan Wisdom -- Chapter 5: Wildness as Political Act -- Chapter 6: After All, He's Just a Man -- Chapter 7: William James and the Wild Beasts of the Philosophical Desert -- Chapter 8: John Dewey's Sensible Mysticism -- Chapter 9: Born to Run -- Chapter 10: Philosophy as Teaching -- Chapter 11: Learning and Teaching -- Chapter 12: Emerson's Platonizing of American Thought -- Chapter 13: American Loss in Cavell's Emerson -- Chapter 14: Emerson and Kerouac -- Chapter 15: Pragmatic Intellectuals -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8232-2550-X
Language:
English
URL:
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