The drama of possibility
Subtitle: experience as philosophy of culture
By: John J. McDermott ; edited by Douglas R. Anderson.
Contributors: Anderson, Douglas R.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780823226627; 9780823226634
Subjects: Philosophy, American; Experience
Table of contents: title: An American angle of vision; title: Poem : roots/edges; title: Threadbare crape : reflections on the American strand; title: An American angle of vision, part 1; title: An American angle of vision, part 2; title: Spires of influence : the importance of Emerson for classical American philosophy; title: Josiah Royce's philosophy of the community : danger of the detached individual; title: Possibility or else! : the philosophy of William James; title: Environing; title: Poem : professional tin cup; title: A relational world : the significance of the thought of William James and John Dewey for global culture; title: Nature nostalgia and the city : an American dilemma; title: Space, time, and touch : philosophical dimensions of urban consciousness; title: Glass without feet : dimensions of urban aesthetics; title: Turning; title: Poem : waiting; title: Why bother : is life worth living? : experience as pedagogical; title: Ill-at-ease : the natural travail of ontological disconnectedness; title: Turning backward : the erosion of moral sensibility; title: The inevitability of our own death : the celebration of time as a prelude to disaster; title: Isolation as starvation : John Dewey and a philosophy of the handicapped; title: Bequeathing; title: Poem : deadlines; title: Hast any philosophy in thee, shepherd?; title: The cultural immortality of philosophy as human drama; title: To be human is to humanize : a radically empirical aesthetic; title: Experience grows by its edges : a phenomenology of relations in an  American philosophical vein; title: The aesthetic drama of the ordinary; title: Teaching; title: Poem : lurking; title: The gamble for excellence : John Dewey's pedagogy of experience; title: Liberty and order in the educational anthropology of Maria Montessori; title: The erosion of face-to-face pedagogy : a jeremiad; title: Cultural literacy : a time for a new curriculum; title: Trumping cynicism with imagination.