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Dooley Patrick Kiaran |
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Titolo |
A community of inquiry : conversations between classical American philosophy and American literature / / Patrick K. Dooley |
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Kent, Ohio : , : The Kent State University Press, , 2008 |
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©2008 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (256 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Philosophy in literature |
American literature - 9th century - History and criticism |
American literature - 20th century - History and criticism |
Literature - Philosophy |
Philosophy, American - 19th century |
Philosophy, American - 20th century |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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""Cover""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""The Philosophical Climate in Turn-of-the-(Last)-Century America""; ""Part I: Stephen Crane: Metaphysical, Epistemological, and Ethical Pluralism""; ""1. Spectators and/or Participants: Crane on Epistemological Privilege�""; ""2. “In the Depths of a Coal Mine�: Crane�s Metaphysics of Experience""; ""3. Ethical Tolerance and Sociological Savvy: Crane�s Travels in Mexico"" |
""4. “Matters of Conscience� and “Blunders of Virtue�: Crane on the Varieties of Heroism, or Why Moral Philosophers Need Literature""""5. Human Solidarity in an Indiff erent Universe: Crane�s Humanism""; ""Part II: William Dean Howells and Harold Frederic: Ethical and Religious Pragmatism""; ""6. Nineteenth-Century Business Ethics and The Rise of Silas Lapham""; ""7. Howells�s Ethical Exegesis in The Rise of Silas Lapham""; ""8. Fakes and Good Frauds: Pragmatic Religion |
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in The Damnation of Theron Ware"" |
""Part III: William James, Theodore Roosevelt, Jack London, and Frank Norris: Heroism and the Strenuous Mood""""9. Public Policy and Philosophical Critique: The James-and-Roosevelt Dialogue on Strenuousness""; ""10. The Strenuous Mood: London�s The Sea-Wolf and James on Saints and Strongmen""; ""11. London�s “South of the Slot� and James�s “The Divided Self �""; ""12. Muscular and Moral Heroism in Norris�s A Man�s Woman""; ""Part IV: Willa Cather, John Steinbeck, and Norman Maclean: Temperament, Memory, Community, and Work"" |
""13. Philosophical Pragmatism and Theological Temperament: The Religious and the Miraculous in Cather�s Death Comes for the Archbishop""""14. Cather�s Phenomenology of Memory and James�s “Specious Present�""; ""15. Tools, Work, and Machines in Cather�s One of Ours""; ""16. Creating Community: Steinbeck�s The Grapes of Wrath and Royce�s Philosophy of Loyalty""; ""17. Human Dignity, Work, the Need for Community, and “the Duty of the Writer to Lift Up:� Steinbeck�s Philosophy of Work""; ""18. Work, Friendship, and Community in Maclean�s Th e River Runs Through It"" |
""Appendix: Suggestions for Further Reading and American Philosophy Critical Edition Projects""""Index"" |
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