Primal Roots of American Philosophy Pragmatism, Phenomenology, and Native American Thought

Name: Primal Roots of American Philosophy Pragmatism, Phenomenology, and Native American Thought
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ISBN: 9780271020266

ISBN-10: 0271020261

ISBN-13: 9780271020266

Edition: 2000

Authors: Bruce Wilshire

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Continuing his quest to bring American philosophy back to its roots, Bruce Wilshire connects the work of such thinkers as Thoreau, Emerson, Dewey, and James with Native American beliefs and practices. His search is not for exact parallels, but rather for fundamental affinities between the equally "organismic" thought systems of indigenous peoples and classic American philosophers.Wilshire gives particular emphasis to the affinities between Black Elk's view of the hoop of the world and Emerson's notion of horizon, and also between a shaman's healing practices and James's ideas of pure experience, willingness to believe, and a pluralistic universe. As these connections come into focus, the…

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List price: $37.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Publication date: 9/15/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.98" wide x 7.94" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Foreword




Reclaiming Sources and Possibilities



Looking Forward to the First Day



Black Elk, Thoreau, Emerson, and Their Aura



William James, Black Elk, and the Healing Act



James: "Wild Beasts of the Philosophic Desert"



James on Truth: The Preeminence of Body and World



Further Reclamations



John Dewey: Philosopher and Poet of Nature



Body-Mind and Subconsciousness: Dewey and Tragedy



Passion for Meaning: William Ernest Hocking's Religious-Philosophical Views



Henry Bugbee: The Inward Morning



Taking Stock



Ways of Knowing



Pragmatism, Neopragmatism, and Phenomenology: The Richard Rorty Phenomenon



William James's Prophetic Grasp of the Failures of Academic Professionalism



Charles Peirce on the Pre-Rational Ground of Reason



Shamanism, Love, Regeneration


Index