Loving immigrants in America : an experiential philosophy of personal interaction / Daniel Campos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Campos, Daniel (Central American Immigrant), author.

Contributor:

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Series:

American philosophy series.

American philosophy series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Campos, Daniel (Central American Immigrant).

Campos, Daniel.

Philosophy, American--20th century.

Philosophy, American.

Philosophy, American--21st century.

Civilization.

Emigration and immigration.

United States--Civilization--20th century.

United States.

United States--Civilization--21st century.

United States--Emigration and immigration.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (270 pages) : illustrations.

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2017.

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington, 2017.

Summary:

At once narrative and reflective, Loving Immigrants in America: An Experiential Philosophy of Personal Interaction is a philosophical account of Daniel Camposs experience as a Latin American immigrant to the United States of America. A series of interrelated personal essays together convey this experience of walking or sauntering, going on road trips, reading American literature in the southern United States, playing association football (soccer or ftbol), churchgoing, and Latin dancing in the U.S. This book's central motif is the caring saunterer, who is understood to be a person who makes him or herself at home anywhere, even as a Latino immigrant in the U.S. The narrative essays convey one immigrant's experience seeking an affective, social, and intellectual home in a new land. The intertwined philosophical reflections lead to the recommendation of an ethic of love--resilient love--for the day-to-day interactions and long-term relations between immigrants and hosts in this country. The author's aim is to establish an open and earnest philosophical dialogue with critical readers interested in the problems surrounding immigration in the U.S. today. He writes as an American philosopher--in the continental sense of North, Central, and South America--whose reflections provide an accessible and provocative angle for the development of insight into the experiences of immigrants in the United States. Thus he brings philosophical reflection drawn from experience, in the broad American tradition, to bear on current issues--on the problems of people and not of philosophers, as John Dewey might put it

Contents:

Philosophical prelude: playfulness, love, and personal growth

An inclination to listen

Southern saunters

Road trips: the Mason-Dixon line and beyond

Americans on the road: Kerouac, Anderson, and Guevara

Down on the bayou

Taking the road less traveled by

Tico and Okie migrants in American literature

Sacramental awakenings in the south

Philosophies of the heart in American literature

Playing fútbol in La Yunai

Churchgoing

Finding a loving home among friends

Dancing out of the labyrinth: from solitude to communion

Philosophical postlude: resilient loving.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-66699-891-5

1-4985-4785-0

OCLC:

992989837