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Native pragmatism : rethinking the roots of American philosophy

Author: Scott L Pratt
Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2002.
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Pragmatism is America's most distinctive philosophy. Generally, it has been understood as a development of European thought in response to the 'American wilderness'. A closer examination, however, reveals that the roots and central commitments of pragmatism are indigenous to North America. Native Pragmatism recovers this history and thus provides the means to re-conceive the scope and potential of American  Read more...
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Pratt, Scott L.
Native pragmatism.
Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, ©2002
(DLC) 2001005662
(OCoLC)48098320
Material Type: Document, Internet resource
Document Type: Internet Resource, Computer File
All Authors / Contributors: Scott L Pratt
ISBN: 025310890X 9780253108906 1282062727 9781282062726 9786612062728 661206272X
OCLC Number: 49852311
Language Note: English.
Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 316 pages) : illustrations
Contents: The problem of origins --
American pragmatism --
The colonial attitude --
American progress --
The indigenous attitude --
Welcoming the cannibals --
The logic of place --
"This very ground" --
Science and sovereignty --
The logic of home --
Feminism and pragmatism.
Responsibility: Scott L. Pratt.

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Pragmatism is America's most distinctive philosophy. In the received history, it has been understood as a development of European thought in response to the "American wilderness." The author  Read more...

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"... [T]his is an interesting and insightful study of the origins of American pragmatism." -Choice, November 2002 Accepting the common view that pragmatism is the uniquely American philosophy, Pratt Read more...

 
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