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Record Nr.

UNINA9910958029203321

Autore

Wilshire Bruce W

Titolo

Fashionable nihilism : a critique of analytic philosophy / / Bruce Wilshire

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2002

ISBN

9780791488379

0791488373

9780585471044

0585471045

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (173 p.)

Disciplina

146/.4

Soggetti

Philosophy

Analysis (Philosophy)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Fashionable Nihilism -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- 1. Nihilistic Consequences of Analytic Philosophy -- 2. "The Ph.D. Octopus": William James's Prophetic Grasp of the Failures of Academic Professionalism -- 3. The Pluralist Rebellion in the American Philosophical Association -- 4. Phenomenology in the United States -- 5. Nature or Nurture?: The Significance of Indigenous Thought -- 6. Conceptual Problems in Grasping Genocide -- 7. Henry Bugbee: Philosopher of Intimacy -- 8. William James on the "Spiritual" -- 9. Looking for Bek -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.

Sommario/riassunto

One of America's foremost philosophers reflects on the discipline and its relation to everyday life.