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American Modern: The Path Not Taken
Victorino Tejera
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Description for American Modern: The Path Not Taken
Paperback. This work describes how four major American thinkers practiced philosophy non-reductively by incorporating the arts and other human activities. It analyzes Peirce, Dewey, Santayana and Buchler, showing how the importance they placed on the human can cure what is missing from recent philosophy. Num Pages: 226 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBAH; HPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
Written in the American tradition, American Modern: The Path Not Taken describes how four major American thinkers practiced philosophy non-reductively by incorporating the arts and other human activities. Tejera provides a detailed analysis of Peirce, Dewey, Santayana, and Buchler, showing that the importance they placed on the human can cure what is missing in recent philosophy. American Modern will interest philosophers, historians of philosophy, and scholars of American intellectual history.
Written in the American tradition, American Modern: The Path Not Taken describes how four major American thinkers practiced philosophy non-reductively by incorporating the arts and other human activities. Tejera provides a detailed analysis of Peirce, Dewey, Santayana, and Buchler, showing that the importance they placed on the human can cure what is missing in recent philosophy. American Modern will interest philosophers, historians of philosophy, and scholars of American intellectual history.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
226
Condition
New
Number of Pages
226
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780847683109
SKU
V9780847683109
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About Victorino Tejera
Victorino Tejera is emeritus university professor of humanities at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. His previous works include City-State Foundations of Western Political Thought, Nietzsche and Greek Thought, Semiotics from Peirce to Barthes, and History and Anti-History in Philosophy.
Reviews for American Modern: The Path Not Taken
Tejera writes with passion and brings us in contact with the greatest philosophers of our native tradition.
John Lachs, Vanderbilt University . . . a superb clarification of the complex philosophy of Buchler and of its relation to the philosophies of Peirce and Dewey...an invaluable contribution to the field of American classical philosophy.
Thelma Z. Lavine, George Mason ... Read more
John Lachs, Vanderbilt University . . . a superb clarification of the complex philosophy of Buchler and of its relation to the philosophies of Peirce and Dewey...an invaluable contribution to the field of American classical philosophy.
Thelma Z. Lavine, George Mason ... Read more