The Drama of Possibility : : Experience as Philosophy of Culture /

The Drama of Possibility : : Experience as Philosophy of Culture / / John J. McDermott; ed. by Douglas R. Anderson.

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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 mosaic of McDermott’s philosophy, showing its roots in an Amer...

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VerfasserIn:
McDermott, John J.,
HerausgeberIn:
Anderson, Douglas R.,
MitwirkendeR:
Anderson, Douglas,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022]
©2007
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:American Philosophy
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Physical Description:1 online resource (416 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Reading McDermott
  • Prelude: Remarks upon Receiving the 2004 Presidential Teaching Award
  • Prescript
  • Part 1: An American Angle of Vision
  • Poem: Roots/Edges
  • 1 Threadbare Crape
  • 2 An American Angle of Vision, Part1
  • 3 An American Angle of Vision, Part2
  • 4 Spires of Influence
  • 5 Josiah Royce’s Philosophy of the Community
  • 6 Possibility or Else!
  • Part 2: Environing
  • Poem: The Professional Tin Cup
  • 7 A Relational World
  • 8 Nature Nostalgia and the City
  • 9 Space, Time, and Touch
  • 10 Glass without Feet
  • Part 3: Turning
  • Poem: Waiting
  • 11 Why Bother
  • 12 Ill-at-Ease
  • 13 ‘‘Turning’’ Backward
  • 14 The Inevitability of Our Own Death
  • 15 Isolation as Starvation
  • Part 4: Bequeathing
  • Poem: Deadlines
  • 16 Hast Any Philosophy in Thee, Shepherd?
  • 17 The Cultural Immortality of Philosophy as Human Drama
  • 18 To Be Human Is to Humanize
  • 19 Experience Grows by Its Edges
  • 20 The Aesthetic Drama of the Ordinary
  • Part 5: Teaching
  • Poem: lurking
  • 21 The Gamble for Excellence
  • 22 Liberty and Order in the Educational Anthropology of Maria Montessori
  • 23 The Erosion of Face-to-Face Pedagogy
  • 24 Cultural Literacy
  • 25 Trumping Cynicism with Imagination
  • Finis
  • Notes
  • Index

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