Philosophy in Experience : : American Philosophy in Transition / / Richard Hart, Douglas R. Anderson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
• VerfasserIn: Hart, Richard,; Anderson, Douglas R.,
• MitwirkendeR: Alexander, Thomas M.,; Anderson, Douglas R.,; Calore, Gary S.,; Campbell, James,; Colapietro, Vincent M.,; Corrington, Robert S.,; Hart, Richard E.,; Hausman, Carl R.,; Kruse, Felicia E.,; Marsoobian, Armen T.,; Ryder, John,; Stuhr, John J.,; Wallace, Kathleen,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2021]; ©1996
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: American Philosophy
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (281 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Introduction: American Philosophy in Transition -- LOOKING BACKWARD -- 1. Tradition: First Steps Toward a Pragmaticistic Clarification -- CONCEPTIONS OF THE SELF -- 2. Incarnation, Difference, and Identity: Materialism, Self, and the Life of Spirit -- 3. Peirce and Representative Persons -- THE PLACE OF COMMUNITY -- 4. James Hayden Tufts on the Social Mission of the University -- 5. Community, Identity, and Difference: Pragmatic Social Thought in Transition -- INTERPRETATION -- 6. Peirce's Sign and the Process of Interpretation -- 7. Buchler's The Main of Light: The Role of Metaphysics in Literary Theory and Interpretation -- AN AESTHETIC DIMENSION -- 8. Beyond the Death of Art: Community and the Ecology of the Self -- 9. Aesthetic Form Revisited: John Dewey's Metaphysics of Art -- RECONSTRUCTING METAPHYSICS -- 10. The Use and Abuse of Modernity: Postmodernism and the American Philosophic Tradition -- 11. Reclaiming Metaphysics for the Present: Postmodernism, Time, and American Thought -- LOOKING FORWARD -- 12. Classical American Metaphysics: Retrospect and Prospect