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Streams of experience : reflections on the history and philosophy of American culture
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Streams of experience : reflections on the history and philosophy of American culture

Author: John J McDermott
Publisher: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 1986.
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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
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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