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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: McDermott, John J. (John Joseph), 1932- Streams of experience. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 1986 (OCoLC)561574326 Online version: McDermott, John J. (John Joseph), 1932- Streams of experience. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 1986 (OCoLC)628284474 |
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| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
John J McDermott |
| ISBN: | 087023496X 9780870234965 |
| OCLC Number: | 12370140 |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
| Description: | xxi, 266 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. Some philosophical foundations: The cultural immortality of philosophy as human drama -- Spires of influence: the importance of Emerson for classical American philosophy -- The Promethean self and community in the philosophy of William James -- 2. The American odyssey and its bequest as champions of surprise: Transiency and amelioration: an American bequest for the new millennium -- America: the loneliness of the quest -- Classical American philosophy: a reflective bequest to the twenty-first century -- A relational world: the significance of the thought of William James and John Dewey for global culture -- 3. The pragmatic upshot: The aesthetic drama of the ordinary -- Experience grows by its edges: a phenomenology of relations in an American philosophical vein -- The inevitability of our own death: the celebration of time as a prelude to disaster -- Do not bequeath a shamble: the child in the twenty-first century -innocent hostage to mindless oppression or children as messengers to the world -- Cultural literacy: a time for a new curriculum -- Glass without feet: dimensions of urban aesthetics -- Isolation as starvation: John Dewey and a philosophy of the handicapped -- Appendix: The renascence of classical American philosophy. |
| Responsibility: | John J. McDermott ; foreword by Norman Grabo. |
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