Title: The primal roots of American philosophy : pragmatism, phenomenology, and Native American thought /
Authors: Wilshire, Bruce W.
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press,
Year: 2000
Subjects: Philosophy, American; Philosophy, American
Contents: Reclaiming sources and possibilities. Looking forward to the first day -- Black Elk, Thoreau, Emerson, and their aura -- William James, Black Elk, and the healing act -- James : "wild beasts of the philosophic desert" -- James on truth : the preeminence of body and world. Further reclamations. John Dewey : philosopher and poet of nature -- Body-mind and subconsciousness : Dewey and tragedy -- Passion for meaning : William Ernest Hocking's religious-philosophical views -- Henry Bugbee : the inward morning. Taking stock. Ways of knowing -- Pragmatism, neopragmatism, and phenomenology : the Richard Rorty phenomenon -- William James's prophetic grasp of the failures of academic professionalism -- Charles Pierce on the pre-rational ground of reason -- Shamanism, love, regeneration.