American Modern: The Path Not Taken
Aesthetics, Metaphysics, and Intellectual History in Classic American Philosophy
Published on 17. October 1996
Book
Hardback
226 pages
978-0-8476-8309-3 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
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 University Tracing the path he believes philosophy should take, Tejera concentrates on Pierce, Dewey, Santayana, and Justus Buchler. His approach to these thinkers and their interpreters as well as to other contemporary schools of thought is distinctive and critical. -- Beth J. Singer, Brooklyn College Tejera has superb insight into the themes and ambitions characteristic of America's greatest philosophers, which he articulates with force and accuracy . . . readers will be able to identify the considerable differences betweent these philosophies and other schools of thought, and they will appreciate the significance of these differences. -- James Gouinlock, Emory UniversityMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Lanham, MD
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
485 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8476-8309-3 (9780847683093)
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Person
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.
Content
Chapter 1 Peirce's Semiotic Philosophy: A Methodeutic of Art and Science Chapter 2 Dewey's Philosophy of Culture Chapter 3 Philosophy as Spiritual Discipline in Santayana: Asthetics, Metaphysics, and Intellectual History Chapter 4 Buchler's Metaphysics: The Dimensions of the Reflective Activity Chapter 5 American Philosophic Historiography Chapter 6 Index