American Philosophy and the Romantic Tradition

Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-0-521-06765-2
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 50, 176 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 270 g

Reihe: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture

Professional philosophers have tended either to shrug off American philosophy as negligible or derivative or to date American philosophy from the work of twentieth-century analytical positivists such as Quine. Russell Goodman expands on the revisionist position developed by Stanley Cavell, that the most interesting strain of American thought proceeds not from Puritan theology or from empirical science but from a peculiarly American kind of Romanticism. This insight leads Goodman, through Cavell, back to Emerson and Thoreau and thence to William James and John Dewey, as they assimilated to American circumstances and intellectual habits the currents of European thought from Kant to Wittgenstein.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Goodman, Russell B.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. The marriage of self and world; 2. Ralph Waldo Emerson; 3. William James; 4. John Dewey; Epilogue; Notes; Index.