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America the philosophical / Carlin Romano.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection B851 .R66 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Romano, Carlin.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophy--United States.
- Philosophy.
- United States--Intellectual life.
- United States.
- Intellectual life.
- Physical Description:
- 672 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Knopf, 2012.
- Summary:
- A bold, insightful book that rejects the myth of America the Unphilosophical, arguing that America today towers as the most philosophical culture in the history of the world, an unprecedented marketplace of truth and argument that far surpasses ancient Greece or any other place one can name.Publisher's description.
- Contents:
- Part 1 American Philosophy and the Tradition
- Therapists, Bootstrappers, Infantry 27
- Parsing America 47
- Great White Men and the Ivy League Cavalcade 66
- Rorty's Revolution 126
- Part 2 Abandoning Toothless Truth: Other White Males Muscle In
- Persuasion and the Brows 161
- Psychologists and Psychiatrist 185
- The Literary Critics 208
- The Political Theorists 231
- Linguist, Mathematician, Neurologist 250
- The Casual Wisemen 260
- The Print Journalists 281
- The Broadcasters 296
- Part 3 The Rising Outsiders
- African Americans 313
- Women 344
- Native Americans 443
- Gays 451
- Part 4 Gutenberg's Revenge: The Explosion of Cyberphilosophy
- The Book Lives! 467
- Cyberpolitics 478
- Cyberreligion 484
- Cyberliteratuxe 496
- Cybercynics 512
- Part 5 Isocrates: A Man, Not a Typo
- Busting Isocrates 535
- Isocrates's Life 538
- Images and Clichés of Isocrates 541
- Sophists and Sophistry 543
- Rhetoricians and Rhetoric 546
- Isocrates, Philosopher 549
- Isocrates, Greece and America 555
- Part 6 Just Saying No to Justification: The Magnificent Failure of John Rawls
- Not Since John Stuart Mill 563
- A Lucky Life 567
- Just Another Word for Nothing Left to Argue About 575
- Rawls on Justification 583
- "The Theory Is Not Successful" 591.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Jones Fund bookplate.
- Athenaeum copy: c.2 gift of the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9780679434702
- 0679434704
- OCLC:
- 745979755
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