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The drama of possibility: experience as philosophy of culture
John J. McDermott and Douglas R. Anderson
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Frontmatter
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Acknowledgments (page ix)
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Introduction: Reading McDermott by Douglas Anderson (page 1)
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Prelude: Remarks upon Receiving the 2004 Presidential Teaching Award (page 5)
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Prescript (page 9)
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PART 1: AN AMERICAN ANGLE OF VISION
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Poem: Roots/Edges (page 15)
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1 Threadbare Crape: Reflections on the American Strand (page 23)
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2 An American Angle of Vision, Part 1 (page 37)
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3 An American Angle of Vision, Part 2 (page 60)
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4 Spires of Influence: The Importance of Emerson for Classical American Philosophy (page 89)
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5 Josiah Royce's Philosophy of the Community: Danger of the Detached Individual (page 106)
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6 Possibility or Else! The Philosophy of William James (page 131)
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PART 2: ENVIRONING
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Poem: The Professional Tin Cup (page 143)
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7 A Relational World: The Significance of the Thought of William James and John Dewey for Global Culture (page 145)
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8 Nature Nostalgia and the City: An American Dilemma (page 167)
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9 Space, Time, and Touch: Philosophical Dimensions of Urban Consciousness (page 185)
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10 Glass without Feet: Dimensions of Urban Aesthetics (page 204)
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PART 3: TURNING
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Poem: Waiting (page 221)
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11 Why Bother: Is Life Worth Living? Experience as Pedagogical (page 223)
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12 Ill-at-Ease: The Natural Travail of Ontological Disconnectedness (page 236)
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13 "Turning" Backward: The Erosion of Moral Sensibility (page 262)
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14 The Inevitability of Our Own Death: The Celebration of Time as a Prelude to Disaster (page 278)
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15 Isolation as Starvation: John Dewey and a Philosophy of the Handicapped (page 291)
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PART 4: BEQUEATHING
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Poem: Deadlines (page 307)
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16 Hast Any Philosophy in Thee, Shepherd? (page 309)
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17 The Cultural Immortality of Philosophy as Human Drama (page 318)
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18 To Be Human Is to Humanize: A Radically Empirical Aesthetic (page 345)
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19 Experience Grows by Its Edges: A Phenomenology of Relations in an American Philosophical Vein (page 372)
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20 The Aesthetic Drama of the Ordinary (page 390)
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PART 5: TEACHING
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Poem: lurking (page 405)
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21 The Gamble for Excellence: John Dewey's Pedagogy of Experience (page 407)
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22 Liberty and Order in the Educational Anthropology of Maria Montessori (page 427)
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23 The Erosion of Face-to-Face Pedagogy: A Jeremiad (page 449)
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24 Cultural Literacy: A Time for a New Curriculum (page 458)
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25 Trumping Cynicism with Imagination (page 476)
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Finis (page 493)
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Notes (page 495)
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Index (page 557)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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TCPS | 45.2 (Spring 2009): 244-248 | http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/transactions_of_the_charles_s_peirce_society/v045/45.2.kaag.html |
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Published: c2007
Publisher: Fordham University Press
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