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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

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

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

This book traces the trajectory of John J. McDermott's philosophical career through a selection of his essays. Many were originally occasional pieces and address specific issues in American thought and culture. Together they constitute a map of McDermott's philosophy, showing its roots in an American conception of experience. Though he draws heavily on the thought of William James and the pragmatists, McDermott has his own unique perspective on philosophy and American life. He presents this to the reader in exquisitely crafted prose. Drawing inspiration from American history, from existentialist themes, and from personal experiences, he offers a dramatic consideration of our cultures failures and successes.

Tracing the trajectory of the author's philosophical career through a selection of his essays, this book addresses specific issues in American thought and culture. It constitutes a mosaic of his philosophy, showing its roots in an American conception of experience

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Present at the End? Who Will Be There When the Last Stone Is Thrown? -- Autobiographical Occasions -- A Brief Autobiography -- Editing American Philosophy -- Reflections on the Career of John J. McDermott -- PART I. THE ETHICS OF BELIEF -- 1 The Right and Duty to Will to Believe -- 2 William James, Dickinson Miller, and C. J. Ducasse on the Ethics of Belief -- 3 Problems and Prospects in the Ethics of Belief -- PART II. REFLECTIONS ON CLASSICAL PRAGMATISM -- 4 A Critical Appraisal of James's View of Causality -- 5 In Memoriam: Frederic Harold Young (1905-2003) and the Founding of the Peirce Society -- 6 The American Philosophical Tradition as Progressively Enriched Naturalism -- PART III. NATURALISM, HOLISM, CONTEXTUALISM -- 7 Propositions and Adverbial Metaphysics -- 8 Thickening Holistic Pragmatism -- PART IV. THE PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION -- 9 On the Difficulty of Evading the Problem of Evil -- 10 Religion and Analytic Naturalism -- 11 Buchler's Ordinal Metaphysics and Process Theology -- PART V. PHILOSOPHY PAST AND FUTURE -- 12 Neglected American Philosophers in the History of Symbolic Interactionism -- 13 The Future of American Philosophy -- PART VI. POETRY -- 14 What Are Poets For? Contextualism and Pragmatism -- 15 Misunderstandings between Poet and Philosopher: Wallace Stevens and Paul Weiss -- 16 Deep Conceptual Play in William James -- PART VII. SOCIAL CRITIQUE -- 17 Reflections on Civil Disobedience -- 18 The American Mind -- 19 The Death Penalty Debate: A Humanist's Understanding of America's Social Problems -- 20 Values of the American Intellectual Class -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

This collection of essays aims to mark a place for American philosophy as it moves into the twenty-first century. Taking their cue from the work of Peirce, James, Santayana, Dewey, Mead, Buchler, and others, the contributors assess and employ philosophy as an activity taking place within experience and culture. Within the broad background of the American tradition, the essays reveal a variety of approaches to the transition in which American philosophy is currently engaged. Some of the pieces argue from an historical dialogue with the tradition, some are more polemically involved with American philosophy's current status among the contemporary philosophical "schools," and still others seek to reveal the possibilities for the future of American philosophy. In thus addressing past, present, and future, the pieces, taken together, outline a trajectory for American philosophy that reinvents its importance from a new angle of vision