A community of inquiry : conversations between classical American philosophy and American literature / / Patrick K. Dooley

• Autore: Dooley Patrick Kiaran
• Pubblicazione: Kent, Ohio : , : The Kent State University Press, , 2008; ©2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (256 p.)
• Disciplina: 810.9/384
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 Indifferent 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 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 The River Runs Through It -- Appendix: Suggestions for Further Reading and American Philosophy Critical Edition Projects -- Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: A community of inquiry
• ISBN: 1-63101-043-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910811376203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II