| Description |
1 online resource (342 pages) |
| Contents |
Part I. Speculative thought in America, 1720-1868. Calvinism and Jonathan Edwards -- -- Philosophy and politics -- Theological dispute -- Collegiate philosophy -- Innovative amateurs -- Part II. The age of pragmatism, 1859-1934. The shape of revolution -- The consensus on Idealism, 1870-1900 -- Pragmatism in Cambridge -- Pragmatism at Harvard -- Instrumentalism in Chicago and New York -- Part III. Professional philosophy, 1912-2000. Professional realism -- Europe's impact on the United States -- Harvard and Oxford -- The tribulations of professional philosophy |
| Summary |
Annotation Here at last is an American counterpart to Bertrand Russell's History of Western Philosophy. The eminent historian Bruce Kuklick tells the fascinating story of the growth of philosophical thinking in the USA, in the context of the intellectual and social changes of the times. Kuklick sketches the genesis of these intellectual practices in New England Calvinism and the writing of Jonathan Edwards. He discusses theology in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and the origins of collegiate philosophy in the early part of the nineteenth century. We see the development of secular preconceptions and the emergence, after Darwin's writings of the mid-late nineteenth century, of forms of thought hostile to religion. Philosophy is situated in a variety of cultural contexts - the ministry, the growing system of higher learning, the conflict between philosophers and theologians and between amateur and professional thinkers, the suspicion of European ideas, and worries about the relevanceof philosophy to public and political life. Kuklick's narrative portrays such great thinkers as Charles Peirce, William James, John Dewey, C.I. Lewis, Wilfrid Sellars, W.V. Quine, and Richard Rorty, and assesses their contributions to philosophy. He brings us right up to date with the first historical treatment of the period after pragmatism, and the fragmentation of philosophy in the second half of the twentieth century. Kuklick steers a controversial course between the divergent views thathistorians and philosophers take of the significance of philosophy in recent years. Anyone interested in American intellectual history, or in how philosophy got where it is today, will enjoy this book |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Philosophy, American -- History -- 18th century
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Philosophy, American -- History -- 19th century
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Philosophy, American -- History -- 20th century
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Philosophy, American
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Philosophie
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USA
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Oxford University Press
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| ISBN |
0199260168 |
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9780199260164 |
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1282199285 |
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9781282199286 |
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