Philosophy in Experience
Subtitle: American Philosophy in Transition (American Philosophy Series, No 4)
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: January 1, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9780823216307
Subjects: Cultural studies; Western philosophy, from c 1900 -; Pragmatism; American Philosophy; Philosophy; USA; Reference; History & Surveys - Modern; 20th century; Philosophy, American
Description: This collection of essays aims to mark a place for American philosophy as it moves into the twenty-first century. Taking their cue from the work of Peirce, James, Santayana, Dewey, Mead, Buchler, and others, the contributors assess and employ philosophy as an activity taking place within experience and culture. Within the broad background of the American tradition, the essays reveal a variety of approaches to the transition in which American philosophy is currently engaged.

Some of the pieces argue from an historical dialogue with the tradition, some are more polemically involved with American philosophy's current status among the contemporary philosophical "schools," and still others seek to reveal the possibilities for the future of American philosophy. In thus addressing past, present, and future, the pieces, taken together, outline a trajectory for American philosophy that reinvests its importance from a new angle of vision.