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Title

The drama of possibility : experience as philosophy of culture / John J. McDermott ; edited by Douglas R. Anderson.

Author

McDermott, John J. (John Joseph), 1932-

Publication

New York : Fordham University Press, 2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

Anderson, Douglas R.

Description

ix, 564 p.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

American philosophy series

Subject

• Philosophy, American
• Experience

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 495-555) and index.

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.

Call Number

JFE 07-6652

ISBN

• 082322662X (alk. paper)
• 9780823226627 (alk. paper)
• 0823226638 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780823226634 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2007018773

OCLC

131063561

Author

McDermott, John J. (John Joseph), 1932-

Title

The drama of possibility : experience as philosophy of culture / John J. McDermott ; edited by Douglas R. Anderson.

Imprint

New York : Fordham University Press, 2007.

Edition

1st ed.

Series

American philosophy series

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 495-555) and index.

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Table of contents only

Added Author

Anderson, Douglas R.

Research Call Number

JFE 07-6652