The Spirit Of American Philosophy

Author : John Smith
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1983-06-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438420479

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The Spirit of American Philosophy by John Smith Pdf

This revised edition of John E. Smith's classic details the phenomenal growth in American philosophy in the years since the book first appeared. Through the addition of a new chapter and the readdressing of earlier material, Smith advances his reflections on the present decade. The book also considers the impact of British linguistic philosophy and other currents of thought abroad on classical American philosophy.

Author : John Edwin Smith
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1983-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0873956508

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The Spirit of American Philosophy by John Edwin Smith Pdf

This revised edition of John E. Smith's classic details the phenomenal growth in American philosophy in the years since the book first appeared. Through the addition of a new chapter and the readdressing of earlier material, Smith advances his reflections on the present decade. The book also considers the impact of British linguistic philosophy and other currents of thought abroad on classical American philosophy.

Author : John E. Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:987249586

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The spirit of American philosophy by John E. Smith Pdf

Author : John Edwin Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0873656512

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The Spirit of American Philosophy by John Edwin Smith Pdf

Author : Richard P. Mullin
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780791480014

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The Soul of Classical American Philosophy by Richard P. Mullin Pdf

Introduces the spiritual ideas of three major American philosophers.

Author : Bruce Wilshire
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0271041323

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Primal Roots of American Philosophy by Bruce Wilshire Pdf

Continuing his quest to bring American philosophy back to its roots, Bruce Wilshire connects the work of such thinkers as Thoreau, Emerson, Dewey, and James with Native American beliefs and practices. His search is not for exact parallels, but rather for fundamental affinities between the equally &"organismic&" thought systems of indigenous peoples and classic American philosophers. Wilshire gives particular emphasis to the affinities between Black Elk&’s view of the hoop of the world and Emerson&’s notion of horizon, and also between a shaman&’s healing practices and James&’s ideas of pure experience, willingness to believe, and a pluralistic universe. As these connections come into focus, the book shows how European phenomenology was inspired and influenced by the classic American philosophers, whose own work reveals the inspiration and influence of indigenous thought. Wilshire&’s book also reveals how artificial are the walls that separate the sciences and the humanities in academia, and that separate Continental from Anglo-American thought within the single discipline of philosophy.

Author : Douglas R. Anderson
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780823225507

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Philosophy Americana by Douglas R. Anderson Pdf

In this engaging book, Douglas Anderson begins with the assumption that philosophythe Greek love of wisdomis alive and well in American culture. At the same time, professional philosophy remains relatively invisible.Anderson traverses American life to find places in the wider culture where professional philosophy in the distinctively American tradition can strike up a conversation. How might American philosophers talk to us about our religious experience, or political engagement, or literatureor even popular music? Andersons second aim is to find places where philosophy happens in nonprofessional guisescultural places such as country music, rockn roll, and Beat literature. He not only enlarges the tradition of American philosophers such as John Dewey and William James by examining lesser-known figures such as Henry Bugbee and Thomas Davidson, but finds the theme and ideas of American philosophy in some unexpected places, such as the music of Hank Williams, Tammy Wynette, and Bruce Springsteen, and the writings of Jack Kerouac.The idea of philosophy Americana trades on the emergent genre of music Americana, rooted in traditional themes and styles yet engaging our present experiences. The music is popular but not thoroughly driven by economic considerations, and Anderson seeks out an analogous role for philosophical practice, where philosophy and popular culture are co-adventurers in the life of ideas. Philosophy Americana takes seriously Emersons quest for the extraordinary in the ordinary and Jamess belief that popular philosophy and Jamess belief that popular philosophy can still be philosophy.

Author : Wayne C. Booth
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780226065717

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For the Love of It by Wayne C. Booth Pdf

For the Love of It is a story not only of one intimate struggle between a man and his cello, but also of the larger struggle between a society obsessed with success and individuals who choose challenging hobbies that yield no payoff except the love of it. "If, in truth, Booth is an amateur player now in his fifth decade of amateuring, he is certainly not an amateur thinker about music and culture. . . . Would that all of us who think and teach and care about music could be so practical and profound at the same time."—Peter Kountz, New York Times Book Review "[T]his book serves as a running commentary on the nature and depth of this love, and all the connections it has formed in his life. . . . The music, he concludes, has become part of him, and that is worth the price."—Clea Simon, Boston Globe "The book will be read with delight by every well-meaning amateur who has ever struggled. . . . Even general readers will come away with a valuable lesson for living: Never mind the outcome of a possibly vain pursuit; in the passion that is expended lies the glory."—John von Rhein, Chicago Tribune "Hooray for amateurs! And huzzahs to Wayne Booth for honoring them as they deserve. For the Love of It celebrates amateurism with genial philosophizing and pointed cultural criticism, as well as with personal reminiscences and self-effacing wit."—James Sloan Allen, USA Today "Wayne Booth, the prominent American literary critic, has written the only sustained study of the interior experience of musical amateurism in recent years, For the Love of It. [It] succeeds as a meditation on the tension between the centrality of music in Booth's life, both inner and social, and its marginality. . . . It causes the reader to acknowledge the heterogeneity of the pleasures involved in making music; the satisfaction in playing well, the pride one takes in learning a difficult piece or passage or technique, the buzz in one's fingertips and the sense of completeness with the bow when the turn is done just right, the pleasure of playing with others, the comfort of a shared society, the joy of not just hearing, but making, the music, the wonder at the notes lingering in the air."—Times Literary Supplement

Author : V. F. Cordova
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0816526486

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How It Is by V. F. Cordova Pdf

Viola Cordova was the first Native American woman to receive a PhD in philosophy. Even as she became an expert on canonical works of traditional Western philosophy, she devoted herself to defining a Native American philosophy. Although she passed away before she could complete her life’s work, some of her colleagues have organized her pioneering contributions into this provocative book. In three parts, Cordova sets out a complete Native American philosophy. First she explains her own understanding of the nature of reality itself—the origins of the world, the relation of matter and spirit, the nature of time, and the roles of culture and language in understanding all of these. She then turns to our role as residents of the Earth, arguing that we become human as we deepen our relation to our people and to our places, and as we understand the responsibilities that grow from those relationships. In the final section, she calls for a new reverence in a world where there is no distinction between the sacred and the mundane. Cordova clearly contrasts Native American beliefs with the traditions of the Enlightenment and Christianized Europeans (what she calls “Euroman” philosophy). By doing so, she leads her readers into a deeper understanding of both traditions and encourages us to question any view that claims a singular truth. From these essays—which are lucid, insightful, frequently funny, and occasionally angry—we receive a powerful new vision of how we can live with respect, reciprocity, and joy.

Author : Gerald Eugene Myers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Philosophy, American
ISBN : STANFORD:36105041148276

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Author : Robert Farris Thompson
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780307874337

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Flash of the Spirit by Robert Farris Thompson Pdf

This landmark book shows how five African civilizations—Yoruba, Kongo, Ejagham, Mande and Cross River—have informed and are reflected in the aesthetic, social and metaphysical traditions (music, sculpture, textiles, architecture, religion, idiogrammatic writing) of black people in the United States, Cuba, Haiti, Trinidad, Mexico, Brazil and other places in the New World.

Author : Gerald Eugene Myers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Philosophy, American
ISBN : STANFORD:36105000233812

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The Spirit of American Philosophy by Gerald Eugene Myers Pdf

"Each of the book's six sections explores a particular relationship in a historical chronological framework. The first section explores the relationship of the individual to a religious context as expressed in the Mayflower Compact and selections from the writings of Cotton, Winthrop, Wise, Edwards, Channing, Royce, and Whitehead. It then turns to the governmental context of individuality as seen in the writings of Adams, Hamilton, Madison, Lincoln, Thoreau, Holmes, and Dewey. The moral context and its ramifications are epitomized in selections from Franklin, Adams, Sumner, George, Veblen, and James. The importance of rationality and education is emphasized in the writings from Paine, Jefferson, Mann, Peirce, James and Dewey. The metaphysical perspective of individualism is portrayed in writings by Emerson, James, Royce, Whitehead, Santayana, and Dewey. The sixth and last chapter attempts to define our age and its technological complexity as seen in the contemporary writings of Cohen, Lewis, Quine, Randall, Hartshorne, and Nagel" --

Author : Walter George Muelder,Laurence Sears,Anne V. Schlabach
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Philosophy, American
ISBN : UCAL:B4271030

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The Development of American Philosophy by Walter George Muelder,Laurence Sears,Anne V. Schlabach Pdf

Author : John Kaag
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780374713119

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American Philosophy by John Kaag Pdf

The epic wisdom contained in a lost library helps the author turn his life around John Kaag is a dispirited young philosopher at sea in his marriage and his career when he stumbles upon West Wind, a ruin of an estate in the hinterlands of New Hampshire that belonged to the eminent Harvard philosopher William Ernest Hocking. Hocking was one of the last true giants of American philosophy and a direct intellectual descendent of William James, the father of American philosophy and psychology, with whom Kaag feels a deep kinship. It is James’s question “Is life worth living?” that guides this remarkable book. The books Kaag discovers in the Hocking library are crawling with insects and full of mold. But he resolves to restore them, as he immediately recognizes their importance. Not only does the library at West Wind contain handwritten notes from Whitman and inscriptions from Frost, but there are startlingly rare first editions of Hobbes, Descartes, and Kant. As Kaag begins to catalog and read through these priceless volumes, he embarks on a thrilling journey that leads him to the life-affirming tenets of American philosophy—self-reliance, pragmatism, and transcendence—and to a brilliant young Kantian who joins him in the restoration of the Hocking books. Part intellectual history, part memoir, American Philosophy is ultimately about love, freedom, and the role that wisdom can play in turning one’s life around.

Author : Thomas L. Pangle
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1990-10-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226645476

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The Spirit of Modern Republicanism by Thomas L. Pangle Pdf

Pangle reexamines the moral philosophy of the Founding Fathers and finds that at the heart of the Framers' republicanism was a dramatically new vision of civic virtue, religious faith, and intellectual life, rooted in an unprecendented commitment to private and economic liberties, and that this commitment represented a departure from both the classical and biblical traditions. He challenges those who explain 18th century political thought exclusively in terms of historical circumstances, Calvinistic faith, or economic and social ideology. He develops a new interpretation of John Locke's moral and political philosophy, arguing that Locke's greatest political and rhetorical achievement was in transforming the God of the Bible into the God of reason and nature; and shows Locke's influence on the Framers' thought. ISBN 0-226-64540-1: $22.50.