Primal Roots Of American Philosophy
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Author | : Bruce Wilshire |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2010-11-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780271041322 |
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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 | : Bruce W. Wilshire |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Philosophy, American |
ISBN | : 9780271052700 |
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Author | : Bruce W. Wilshire |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Philosophy, American |
ISBN | : 9780271050041 |
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Author | : Scott L. Pratt |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2002-04-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780253108906 |
Download Native Pragmatism Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Pragmatism is America's most distinctive philosophy. Generally it has been understood as a development of European thought in response to the "American wilderness." A closer examination, however, reveals that the roots and central commitments of pragmatism are indigenous to North America. Native Pragmatism recovers this history and thus provides the means to re-conceive the scope and potential of American philosophy. Pragmatism has been at best only partially understood by those who focus on its European antecedents. This book casts new light on pragmatism's complex origins and demands a rethinking of African American and feminist thought in the context of the American philosophical tradition. Scott L. Pratt demonstrates that pragmatism and its development involved the work of many thinkers previously overlooked in the history of philosophy.
Author | : Jean De Groot |
Publisher | : CUA Press |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2004-11 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0813213819 |
Download Nature in American Philosophy (Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy, Volume 42) Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
With its focus on philosophy of nature, this book fills a gap in the ongoing reassessment of nineteenth-century American philosophy, and it opens the way to further study of the role played by reflection on nature in the emergence of the American mind.
Author | : Bruce Wilshire |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1999-10-27 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780847689682 |
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Why is it that even amidst affluence and power, our culture is plagued by a variety of addiction? In this pioneering book, the author searchers for answers by giving serious attention to our genetic legacy from our hunter-gatherer ancestors as well as to the unique ways we adapt to our environment through the practice of science addiction - including drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, and gambling - suggesting that wilderness exploration, in the arts, myths, and ceremonies, can help us rediscover what it means to be human creatures. Bringing together the insights of philosophy, religion, cultural anthropology, behavioural biology, and the vast socio-medical literature on addiction. The author ingeniously explores the limits of our adaptive capacity and the costs of depleting the natural regenerative functions of the body.
Author | : Robert Bunge |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Indian philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780819136008 |
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Author | : Bruce W. Wilshire |
Publisher | : Fordham Univ Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2016-02-01 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0823268357 |
Download The Much-at-Once Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
In this capstone work, the late Bruce Wilshire seeks to rediscover the fullness of life in the world by way of a more complete activation of the body’s potentials. Appealing to our powers of hearing and feeling, with a special emphasis on music, he engages a rich array of composers, writers, and thinkers ranging from Beethoven and Mahler to Emerson and William James. Wilshire builds on James’s concept of the much-at-once to name the superabundance of the world that surrounds, nourishes, holds, and stimulates us; that pummels and provokes us; that responds to our deepest need—to feel ecstatically real.
Author | : Bruce Wilshire |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 173 |
Release | : 2012-02-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0791488373 |
Download Fashionable Nihilism Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Thoreau wrote that we have professors of philosophy but no philosophers. Can't we have both? Why doesn't philosophy hold a more central place in our lives? Why should it? Eloquently opposing the analytic thrust of philosophy in academia, noted pluralist philosopher Bruce Wilshire answers these questions and more in an effort to make philosophy more meaningful to our everyday lives. Writing in an accessible style he resurrects classic yet neglected forms of inquiring and communicating. In a series of personal essays, Wilshire describes what is wrong with the current state of philosophy in American higher education, namely the cozy but ultimately suffocating confinements of professionalism. He reclaims the role of the philosopher as one who, like Socrates, would goad us out of self-contentedness into a more authentic way of being and knowing.
Author | : William Barrett |
Publisher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2011-01-26 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0307761088 |
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Widely recognized as the finest definition of existentialist philosophy ever written, this book introduced existentialism to America in 1958. Barrett speaks eloquently and directly to concerns of the 1990s: a period when the irrational and the absurd are no better integrated than before and when humankind is in even greater danger of destroying its existence without ever understanding the meaning of its existence. Irrational Man begins by discussing the roots of existentialism in the art and thinking of Augustine, Aquinas, Pascal, Baudelaire, Blake, Dostoevski, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Picasso, Joyce, and Beckett. The heart of the book explains the views of the foremost existentialists—Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Sartre. The result is a marvelously lucid definition of existentialism and a brilliant interpretation of its impact.