03880nam 2200613 a 450 99624819660331620220110135122.00-8232-3570-X0-8232-4774-0(CKB)3390000000018227(EBL)3239664(SSID)ssj0000509772(PQKBManifestationID)11341377(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000509772(PQKBWorkID)10572934(PQKB)11240914(StDuBDS)EDZ0000021302(MiAaPQ)EBC3239664(OCoLC)733997318(MdBmJHUP)muse14999(Au-PeEL)EBL3239664(CaPaEBR)ebr10586722(OCoLC)923763838(EXLCZ)99339000000001822720070507d2007 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe drama of possibility[electronic resource] experience as philosophy of culture /John J. McDermott ; edited by Douglas R. Anderson1st ed.New York Fordham University Press20071 online resource (578 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8232-2662-X Includes bibliographical references (p. 495-555) and index.An American angle of vision -- Poem : roots/edges -- Threadbare crape : reflections on the American strand -- An American angle of vision, part 1 -- An American angle of vision, part 2 -- Spires of influence : the importance of Emerson for classical American philosophy -- Josiah Royce's philosophy of the community : danger of the detached individual -- Possibility or else! : the philosophy of William James -- Environing -- Poem : professional tin cup -- A relational world : the significance of the thought of William James and John Dewey for global culture -- Nature nostalgia and the city : an American dilemma -- Space, time, and touch : philosophical dimensions of urban consciousness -- Glass without feet : dimensions of urban aesthetics -- Turning -- Poem : waiting -- Why bother : is life worth living? : experience as pedagogical -- Ill-at-ease : the natural travail of ontological disconnectedness -- "Turning" backward : the erosion of moral sensibility -- The inevitability of our own death : the celebration of time as a prelude to disaster -- Isolation as starvation : John Dewey and a philosophy of the handicapped -- Bequeathing -- Poem : deadlines -- Hast any philosophy in thee, shepherd? -- The cultural immortality of philosophy as human drama -- To be human is to humanize : a radically empirical aesthetic -- Experience grows by its edges : a phenomenology of relations in an American philosophical vein -- The aesthetic drama of the ordinary -- Teaching -- Poem : lurking -- The gamble for excellence : John Dewey's pedagogy of experience -- Liberty and order in the educational anthropology of Maria Montessori -- The erosion of face-to-face pedagogy : a jeremiad -- Cultural literacy : a time for a new curriculum -- Trumping cynicism with imagination.Tracing the trajectory of the author's philosophical career through a selection of his essays, this book addresses specific issues in American thought and culture. It constitutes a mosaic of his philosophy, showing its roots in an American conception of experience.Philosophy, AmericanExperienceElectronic books.Philosophy, American.Experience.191McDermott John J(John Joseph),1932-2018.1071600Anderson Douglas R54106MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK996248196603316The drama of possibility2567775UNISA