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The drama of possibility : experience as philosophy of culture / John J. McDermott ; edited by Douglas R. Anderson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McDermott, John J. (John Joseph), 1932-
- Series:
- American philosophy series.
- Fordham American philosophy.
- American philosophy series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophy, American.
- Experience.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (578 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 495-555) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780823235704
- 082323570X
- 9780823247745
- 0823247740
- OCLC:
- 733997318
- Publisher Number:
- 2027/heb08481 hdl
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