The drama of possibility : experience as philosophy of culture / / John J. McDermott ; edited by Douglas R. Anderson
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| Autore: |
McDermott John J (John Joseph), <1932->
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| Titolo: |
The drama of possibility : experience as philosophy of culture / / John J. McDermott ; edited by Douglas R. Anderson
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Fordham University Press, 2007 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (578 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 191 |
| Soggetto topico: | Philosophy, American |
| Experience | |
| Altri autori: |
AndersonDouglas R
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 495-555) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The drama of possibility |
| ISBN: | 9780823235704 |
| 082323570X | |
| 9780823247745 | |
| 0823247740 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910974963003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
American philosophy series.
Fordham American philosophy.