Philosophy Americana [electronic resource] : Making Philosophy at Home in American Culture /
Anderson, Douglas R.
New York : Fordham University Press,
2006.
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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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.
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.
Philosophy, American