America's Forgotten Poet-Philosopher
The Thought of John Elof Boodin in His Time and Ours
1st Edition
Published on 1. December 2023
317 pages
978-1-4384-9573-6 (ISBN)
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Illuminating study of the ideas and influences of a near-forgotten American philosopher.
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English
Place of publication
Basel/Berlin/Boston
United States
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Professional and scholarly
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Digital original
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Reflowable
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Total Illustrations: 2
Total Illustrations: 2
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978-1-4384-9573-6 (9781438495736)
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Michael A. Flannery
America's Forgotten Poet-Philosopher
The Thought of John Elof Boodin in His Time and Ours
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06/2024
State University of New York Press
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Michael A. Flannery
America's Forgotten Poet-Philosopher
The Thought of John Elof Boodin in His Time and Ours
Book
12/2023
State University of New York Press
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Michael A. Flannery is Professor Emeritus of UAB Libraries at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is the author of Nature's Prophet: Alfred Russel Wallace and His Evolution from Natural Selection to Natural Theology, among other books.
Content
Acknowledgments
Prologue: Who Was John Elof Boodin?
Introduction: Science and Its "Mad Clockwork of Epicycles": The Key to Understanding Boodin
1. Boodin's Time
2. Pragmatic Realism: Boodin's Metaphysics
3. Evolution, 1925
4. A Theological Trilogy
5. The Social Mind: Boodin's Sociology of Spirit
6. Boodin in a Hostile World
Epilogue
Appendix
Glossary of Important Terms
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Prologue: Who Was John Elof Boodin?
Introduction: Science and Its "Mad Clockwork of Epicycles": The Key to Understanding Boodin
1. Boodin's Time
2. Pragmatic Realism: Boodin's Metaphysics
3. Evolution, 1925
4. A Theological Trilogy
5. The Social Mind: Boodin's Sociology of Spirit
6. Boodin in a Hostile World
Epilogue
Appendix
Glossary of Important Terms
Notes
Bibliography
Index
