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Author : Morton Gabriel White
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0195018923
Discusses how philosophical analysis may illuminate the history of ideas as well as many of the central institutions of civilization.
Author : Mark Bauerlein
Publisher : New Americanists
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015039880904
English professor Mark Bauerlein studies the pragmatism of Emerson, James, and Peirce and its overlooked relevance for the neopragmatism of later thinkers. Bauerlein argues that those "original" pragmatists are often cited casually and imprecisely as mere precursors to contemporary intellectuals, but, in fact, many broad social and academic reforms hailed by new pragmatists were actually grounded in the "old" school.
Author : Morton White
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:232718070
Author : William Egginton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781635571349
A timely, provocative, necessary look at how identity politics has come to dominate college campuses and higher education in America at the expense of a more essential commitment to equality. Thirty years after the culture wars, identity politics is now the norm on college campuses-and it hasn't been an unalloyed good for our education system or the country. Though the civil rights movement, feminism, and gay pride led to profoundly positive social changes, William Egginton argues that our culture's increasingly narrow focus on individual rights puts us in a dangerous place. The goal of our education system, and particularly the liberal arts, was originally to strengthen community; but the exclusive focus on individualism has led to a new kind of intolerance, degrades our civic discourse, and fatally distracts progressive politics from its commitment to equality. Egginton argues that our colleges and universities have become exclusive, expensive clubs for the cultural and economic elite instead of a national, publicly funded project for the betterment of the country. Only a return to the goals of community, and the egalitarian values underlying a liberal arts education, can head off the further fracturing of the body politic and the splintering of the American mind. With lively, on-the-ground reporting and trenchant analysis, The Splintering of the American Mind is a powerful book that is guaranteed to be controversial within academia and beyond. At this critical juncture, the book challenges higher education and every American to reengage with our history and its contexts, and to imagine our nation in new and more inclusive ways.
Author : Kristen Case
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781571134851
Wittgenstein wrote that "philosophy ought really to be written only as a form of poetry." American poetry has long engaged questions about subject and object, self and environment, reality and imagination, real and ideal that have dominated the Western philosophical tradition since the Enlightenment. Kristen Case's book argues that American poets from Emerson to Susan Howe have responded to the central problems of Western philosophy by performing, in language, the continually shifting relation between mind and world. Pragmatism, recognizing the futility of philosophy's attempt to fix the mind/world relation, announces the insights that these poets enact. Pursuing the flights of pragmatist thinking into poetry and poetics, Case traces an epistemology that emerges from American writing, including that of Emerson, Marianne Moore, William James, and Charles Olson. Here mind and world are understood as inseparable, and the human being is regarded as, in Thoreau's terms, "part and parcel of Nature." Case presents a new picture of twentieth-century American poetry that disrupts our sense of the schools and lineages of modern and postmodern poetics, arguing that literary history is most accurately figured as a living field rather than a line. This book will be of particular interest to scholars and students of pragmatism, transcendentalism, and twentieth-century American poetry. Kristen Case is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Maine at Farmington.
Author : Allan Bloom
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2008-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781439126264
The brilliant, controversial, bestselling critique of American culture that “hits with the approximate force and effect of electroshock therapy” (The New York Times)—now featuring a new afterword by Andrew Ferguson in a twenty-fifth anniversary edition. In 1987, eminent political philosopher Allan Bloom published The Closing of the American Mind, an appraisal of contemporary America that “hits with the approximate force and effect of electroshock therapy” (The New York Times) and has not only been vindicated, but has also become more urgent today. In clear, spirited prose, Bloom argues that the social and political crises of contemporary America are part of a larger intellectual crisis: the result of a dangerous narrowing of curiosity and exploration by the university elites. Now, in this twenty-fifth anniversary edition, acclaimed author and journalist Andrew Ferguson contributes a new essay that describes why Bloom’s argument caused such a furor at publication and why our culture so deeply resists its truths today.
Author : Cheryl Misak
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199231201
Presents a history of the American philosophical tradition of pragmatism from its inception in the Metaphysical Club (Cambridge, MA) of the 1870s to present.
Author : John Patrick Diggins
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1995-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0226148793
For much of our century, pragmatism has enjoyed a charmed life, holding the dominant point of view in American politics, law, education, and social thought in general. After suffering a brief eclipse in the post-World War II period, pragmatism has enjoyed a revival, especially in literary theory and such areas as poststructuralism and deconstruction. In this sweeping critique of pragmatism and neopragmatism, one of our leading intellectual historians traces the attempts of thinkers from William James to Richard Rorty to find a response to the crisis of modernism. John Patrick Diggins analyzes the limitations of pragmatism from a historical perspective and dares to ask whether America's one original contribution to the world of philosophy has actually fulfilled its promise. In the late nineteenth century, intellectuals felt themselves in the grips of a spiritual crisis. This confrontation with the "acids of modernity" eroded older faiths and led to a sense that life would continue in the awareness, of absences: knowledge without truth, power without authority, society without spirit, self without identity, politics without virtue, existence without purpose, history without meaning. In Europe, Friedrich Nietzsche and Max Weber faced a world in which God was "dead" and society was succumbing to structures of power and domination. In America, Henry Adams resigned from Harvard when he realized there were no truths to be taught and when he could only conclude: "Experience ceases to educate." To the American philosophers of pragmatism, it was experience that provided the basis on which new methods of knowing could replace older ideas of truth. Diggins examines how, in different ways, William James, Charles Peirce, John Dewey, George H. Mead, and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., demonstrated that modernism posed no obstacle in fields such as science, education, religion, law, politics, and diplomacy. Diggins also examines the work of the neopragmatists Jurgen Habermas and Richard Rorty and their attempt to resolve the crisis of postmodernism. Using one author to interrogate another, Diggins brilliantly allows the ideas to speak to our conditions as well as theirs. Did the older philosophers succeed in fulfilling the promises of pragmatism? Can the neopragmatists write their way out of what they have thought themselves into? And does America need philosophers to tell us that we do not need foundational truths when the Founders already told us that the Constitution would be a "machine" that would depend more upon the "counterpoise" of power than on the claims of knowledge? Diggins addresses these and other essential questions in this magisterial account of twentieth-century intellectual life. It should be read by everyone concerned about the roots of postmodernism (and its links to pragmatism) and about the forms of thought and action available for confronting a world after postmodernism.
Author : Henry Steele Commager
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1950-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300000464
An analysis of the political and social thought prevalent in America from 1880 to 1940
Author : Dennis J. Mahoney
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0739106562
Mahoney describes the emergence of American political science as a separate academic discipline in the era between the Civil War and the First World War, with the pivotal event of the founding of the American Political Science Association in 1903. His book, a testament to the integrity of American political science, chronicles its intellectual and cultural development.
Author : William James
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2000-04-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781101221617
The writings of William James represent one of America's most original contributions to the history of ideas. Ranging from philosophy and psychology to religion and politics, James composed the most engaging formulation of American pragmatism. 'Pragmatism' grew out of a set of lectures and the full text is included here along with 'The Meaning of Truth', 'Psychology', 'The Will to Believe', and 'Talks to Teachers on Psychology'.
Author : Steve Odin
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791424928
This is the first book on East-West comparative thought to critically analyze the Zen Buddhist model of self in modern Japanese philosophy from the standpoint of American pragmatism.
Author : John R. Shook,Tibor Solymosi
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781472505859
Pragmatist Neurophilosophy:American Philosophy and the Brain explains why the broad tradition of pragmatism is needed now more than ever. Bringing pragmatist philosophers together with cognitive psychologists and neuroscientists, this volume explores topics of urgent interest across neuroscience and philosophy from the perspective of pragmatism. Discussing how Charles Peirce, William James, John Dewey, and George Mead benefited from their laboratory-knowledge, contributors treat America's first-generation pragmatists as America's first cognitive scientists. They explain why scientists today should participate in pragmatic judgments, just as the classical pragmatists did, and how current scientists can benefit from their earlier philosophical explorations across the same territory. Looking at recent neuroscientific discoveries in relation to classical pragmatists, they explore emerging pragmatic views supported directly from the behavioral and brain sciences and describe how "neuropragmatism" engages larger cultural questions by adequately dealing with meaningful values and ethical ideals. Pragmatist Neurophilosophy is an important contribution to scholars of both pragmatism and neuroscience and a timely reminder that America's first generation of pragmatists did not stumble onto its principles, but designed them in light of biology's new discoveries.
Author : Nick Rumens
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317182252
Emerging during the late nineteenth century in the diverse scholarship of US commentators such as Charles Sanders Peirce, William James and John Dewey, American pragmatism shaped many intellectual currents within a range of disciplines including politics, education, administrative science and religion. Despite attracting attention and interest due to its conceptualization of theory, in terms of its practical consequences for improving the human condition, American pragmatism struggled to maintain its influence and suffered a hiatus until it experienced a renaissance within scholarly circles during the 1970s. While renewed interest in American pragmatism continues to grow, with some scholars distinguishing between classical, neo and new forms of pragmatism, it is only relatively recently that organization studies scholars have drawn upon American pragmatist philosophies for shedding new light on aspects of contemporary organizational life. This edited collection builds on this emergent literature in an engaging and scholarly manner. American Pragmatism and Organization is a ground-breaking collection and distinctive in its book-length treatment of American pragmatism as a relevant resource for analysing organisations. It draws together an international body of research focused on the interconnections and interplay between American pragmatism and organizational phenomena, explores the theoretical possibilities afforded by pragmatist thinking for understanding organization, and illuminates the practical advantages of doing so.
Author : Bliss Perry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1835915604
Bliss Perry's "The American Mind: An Interpretation of American Thought and Character since the 1880s" is a significant work of intellectual history that explores the evolution of American thought and character during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Published in 1912, the book offers a comprehensive analysis of the philosophical, cultural, and social currents that shaped the American psyche during this period. At its core, "The American Mind" seeks to understand the unique features of American intellectual life and the distinctiveness of the American national character. Perry traces the development of American thought from the Gilded Age through the Progressive Era, examining the impact of various intellectual movements, social changes, and historical events on the collective consciousness of the nation. One of the central themes of the book is the tension between tradition and innovation in American thought. Perry explores how American thinkers grappled with the legacy of European intellectual traditions while also striving to forge a distinctly American philosophy and culture. He discusses the influence of pragmatism, transcendentalism, and other philosophical movements on American thought, as well as the ways in which American thinkers sought to reconcile conflicting ideas and values. "The American Mind" also delves into the social and cultural dimensions of American life, examining topics such as religion, education, literature, and politics. Perry analyzes the impact of immigration, industrialization, urbanization, and other social forces on the American psyche, highlighting the ways in which these changes shaped American identity and values. Throughout the book, Perry provides nuanced portraits of key figures in American intellectual history, including William James, John Dewey, Henry James, and Theodore Roosevelt, among others. He explores their ideas, contributions, and conflicts, offering readers a deeper understanding of the diverse currents that shaped American thought during this transformative period. Overall, "The American Mind" is a seminal work that continues to be studied and debated by scholars of American history, philosophy, and culture. Perry's insights into the complexities of the American psyche and the dynamics of intellectual life in the late 19th and early 20th centuries make the book an invaluable resource for anyone seeking to understand the roots of contemporary American identity and thought.
