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- ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: http://www.humanitiesebook.org
- Description
- ix, 564 p.; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- American philosophy series
- Uniform Title
- American philosophy series.
- Fordham American philosophy.
- ACLS Humanities E-Book.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 495-555) and index.
- Reproduction (note)
- Electronic text and image data.
- 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.
- OCLC
- (dli)HEB08481
- Author
McDermott, John J. (John Joseph), 1932-
- Title
The drama of possibility [electronic resource] : experience as philosophy of culture / John J. McDermott ; edited by Douglas R. Anderson.
- Imprint
New York : Fordham University Press, c2007.
- Edition
1st ed.
- Series
American philosophy series
American philosophy series.
Fordham American philosophy.
ACLS Humanities E-Book.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 495-555) and index.
- Reproduction
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2010. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) ([Fordham American philosophy]) Mode of access: Intranet.
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Anderson, Douglas R.
American Council of Learned Societies.
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ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: http://www.humanitiesebook.org/
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Original 9780823226627 9780823226634 (DLC)2007018773