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Beginning with the assumption that philosophy - the Greek love of wisdom - is alive and well in American culture, this work traverses American life to find places in the wider culture where professional philosophy in the distinctively American tradition can strike up a conversation

Philosophy written in English is overwhelmingly analytic philosophy, and the techniques and predilections of analytic philosophy are not only unhistorical but anti-historical, and hostile to textual commentary. Analytic philosophy usually aspires to a very high degree of clarity and precision of formulation and argument, and it often seeks to be informed by, and consistent with, current natural science. In an earlier era, analytic philosophy aimed at agreement withordinary linguistic intuitions or common sense beliefs, or both. All of these aspects of the subject sit uneasily with the use of historical texts for philosophical illumination. In this book, ten distinguished philosophers explore the tensions between, and the possibilities of reconciling, analyticphilosophy and history of philosophy.Contributors: M. R. Ayers, John Cottingham, Daniel Garber, Gary Hatfield, Anthony Kenny, Steven Nadler, G. A. J. Rogers, Tom Sorell, Catherine Wilson, Yves Charles Zarka.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction: Inheritance, Teaching, and the Insane Angels of American Culture: Our Cultural Invisibility -- One. Some Preliminary Remarks on the Origins of Pragmatism -- Two. Royce, Philosophy, and Wandering: A Job Description -- Three. Wilderness as Philosophical Home -- Four. Working Certainty and Deweyan Wisdom -- Five. Wildness as Political Act -- Six. ''After All, He's Just a Man'' -- Seven. William James and the Wild Beasts of the Philosophical Desert -- Eight. John Dewey's Sensible Mysticism -- Nine. ''Born to Run'' -- Ten. Philosophy as Teaching -- Eleven. Learning and Teaching -- Twelve. Emerson's Platonizing of American Thought -- Thirteen. American Loss in Cavell's Emerson -- Fourteen. Emerson and Kerouac: Grievous Angels of Hope and Loss -- Fifteen. Pragmatic Intellectuals -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Cover; Contents; Front matter; Title page; Copyright page; Series Editor's Note; James J.S. Foster: Introduction; Body matter; One: William Smith (1727-1803); Two: Benjamin Rush (1746-1813); Three: John Witherspoon (1723-1794); Four: James Wilson (1742-1798); Five: Samuel Stanhope Smith (1751-1819); Six: Archibald Alexander (1772-1851); Seven: William Ellery Channing (1780-1842); Eight: Alexander Campbell (1788-1866); Nine: James McCosh (1811-1894); Ten: Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914); Back matter; Other titles available from Imprint Academic and Andrews UK.