Philosophy Americana : making philosophy at home in American culture / Douglas R. Anderson.
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.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2006.
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| Edition: | 1st edition. |
| Series: | American philosophy series ;
no. 18. |
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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.