Professor Erin McKenna (USA University of Oregon), Professor Scott L. Pratt

American Philosophies

From Wounded Knee to the Present: 2nd Edition

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An introduction to the history and key ideas throughout the American philosophical tradition including voices from marginalised peoples and contemporary, emerging ideas.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• 2 ed
• Seitenzahl: 440
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. November 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 263mm x 148mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 768g
• ISBN-13: 9781350342743
• ISBN-10: 1350342742
• Artikelnr.: 69927377

Autorenporträt

Erin McKenna is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oregon, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue
Chapter 1: Introduction: American Philosophy Today
PART I-1894-1918
Chapter 2: Defining Pluralism: Simon Pokagon, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, and T.
Thomas Fortune.
Chapter 3: Evolution and American Indian Philosophy
Chapter 4: Feminist Resistance: Anna Julia Cooper, Jane Addams, and
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Chapter 5: Labor, Empire and the Social Gospel: Washington Gladden, Walter
Rauschenbusch, and Jane Addams
Chapter 6: A New Name for an Old Way of Thinking: William James
Chapter 7: Making Ideas Clear: Charles Sanders Peirce
Chapter 8: The Beloved Community and its Discontents: Josiah Royce and
the Realists
Chapter 9: War, Anarchism, and Sex: Emma Goldman and Margaret Sanger
Chapter 10: Democracy and Social Ethics: John Dewey
Chapter 11: Naturalism and Idealism, Fear and Conventionality: Mary
Whiton Calkins and Elsie Clews Parsons
PART II-1918-1939
Chapter 12: Race Riots and the Color Line: W. E. B. Du Bois
Chapter 13: Philosophy Reacts: Hartley Burr Alexander and Morris R. Cohen
Chapter 14: Creative Experience: Mary Parker Follett
Chapter 15: Cultural Pluralism: Horace Kallen and Alain Locke
PART III-1939-1979
Chapter 16: War and the Rise of Logical Positivism: Otto Neurath and
Rudolf Carnap
Chapter 17: McCarthyism and American Empiricism: Jacob Loewenberg,
Henry Sheffer, C. I. Lewis, and Charles Morris
Chapter 18: The Linguistic Turn: Gustav Bergmann, May Brodbeck, and
W. V. O. Quine
Chapter 19: Resisting the Turn: Donald Davidson, Wilfrid Sellars, and
the "Pluralist Rebellion"
PART IV-Applying Philosophy
Chapter 20: Philosophy Outside: John Muir, Aldo Leopold, Joseph Wood
Krutch, and Rachel Carson
Chapter 21: Economics and Technology: Lewis Mumford, C. Wright Mills,
and John Kenneth Galbraith
Chapter 22: Politics: John Rawls, Robert Nozick, Michael Sandel, Martha
Nussbaum, and Noam Chomsky
PART V-Social Revolutions
Chapter 23: Civil Rights: Martin Luther King, Jr., Richard Wright and
James Baldwin.
Chapter 24: Black Power: Malcolm X, James Cone, Audre Lorde, bell hooks,
Angela Davis, and Cornel West
Chapter 25: Latin American American Philosophy
Chapter 26: Red Power, Indigenous Philosophy: Vine Deloria, Jr. and
Contemporary American Indian Thought
Chapter 27: Feminism
Chapter 28: Engaged Philosophy and the Environment
Part VI: American Philosophy Today
Chapter 29: Recovering and Sustaining the American Tradition
Chapter 30: American Philosophy Revitalized
Chapter 31: The Spirit of American Philosophy in the New Century
Chapter 32: Race and American Philosophy
Chapter 33: Pragmatism and the politics of the Extreme