The Classical American Pragmatists & Religion: A Reader

ISBN-13: 9781602582590 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 425 str.

J. Caleb Clanton

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The classical American pragmatists are hailed as the country's distinctive philosophical voice. In this volume, J. Caleb Clanton brings to the fore several of the most influential pragmatist thinkers and artfully presents their insight and instruction on religion. Including the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, George Herbert Mead, William James, John Dewey, Josiah Royce, Jane Addams, and W.E.B. Du Bois, among others, this anthology offers a valuable resource from America's golden age of philosophical thought. "The Classical American Pragmatists and Religion" will aid readers in identifying and resolving the current problems surrounding American religious experience and its place in public life.

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• Introduction: On Classical Pragmatism and Religion in America
• Part I: Pre-pragmatists: Unitarians, Transcendentalists, Proto-pragmatists
• 1. William Ellery Channing
• 2. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• 3. Henry David Thoreau
• 4. Margaret Fuller
• 5. Walt Whitman
• 6. Chauncey Wright
• Part II: Classical American Pragmatists
• 7. Charles Sanders Peirce
• 8. William James
• 9. John Dewey
• 10. George Herbert Mead
• Part III: Fellow Travelers, Sympathizers, Middle Pragmatists
• 11. Borden Parker Bowne
• 12. Josiah Royce
• 13. George Santayana
• 14. Jane Addams
• 15. W.E.B. Du Bois
• 16. William Ernest Hocking
• 17. Alain Locke
• 18. Sidney Hook