Classical American Philosophy
Subtitle: Poiesis in Public
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2021
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781350151352
Description: "Rebecca Farinas takes seven major figures from the American philosophical canon and examines their relationship with an artistic or scientific interlocutor. In so doing, she provides a unique insight into the origins of American philosophy and, through case studies such as the friendship between Alain Locke and the biologist E.E. Just and the collaboration between Jane Addams and George Herbert Mead, sheds new light on these thinkers' ideas"--