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A History of Philosophy in America
1720-2000
Bruce Kuklick
344 pages
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234x156mm
978-0-19-926016-4
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Paperback
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09 January 2003
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- the only book on the subject for a broad readership
- fascinating, readable story of philosophy in America
- the only up-to-date history for scholars and students
- lively and accessible narrative
- illuminates also the history of American religion and politics
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 relevance of 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 that historians 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.Readership: Students and scholars of philosophy, intellectual historians, anyone interested in the history of American culture.
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Bruce Kuklick, Nichols Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania
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"This history of American philosophy from 1720 through 2000 displays the erudition, philosophical sensitivity, and boldness that we have come to associate with the work of Bruce Kuklick, the premier historian of American philosophy ... an invaluable reference source" - Richard M. Gale, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
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Introduction
Speculative Thought in America, 1720-18681: Calvinism and Jonathan Edwards
2: Philosophy and Politics
3: Theological Disputes
4: Collegiate Philosophy
5: Innovative Amateurs
The Age of Pragmatism, 1859-19346: The Shape of Revolution
7: The Consensus on Idealism, 1870-1900
8: Pragmatism in Cambridge
9: Pragmatism at Harvard
10: Instrumentalism in Chicago and New York
Professional Philosophy 1912-200011: Professional Realism
12: Europe's Impact on the United States
13: Harvard and Oxford
14: The Tribulations of Professional Philosophy
Conclusion
Methods, Sources, Notes; Acknowledgements; Index
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