The Drama of Possibility : Experience as Philosophy of Culture / John J. McDermott; ed. by Douglas R. Anderson.
McDermott, John J., author.; Anderson, Douglas R., editor.; Anderson, Douglas, contributor.
2022
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Title The Drama of Possibility : Experience as Philosophy of Culture / John J. McDermott; ed. by Douglas R. Anderson.
Author McDermott, John J., author.
ISBN 9780823292868
DOI https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823292868
Published New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022]
Copyright ©2007
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (416 p.)
Item Number 10.1515/9780823292868 doi
Summary This book traces the trajectory of John J. McDermott's philosophical career through a selection of his essays. Many were originally occasional pieces and address specific issues in American thought and culture. Together they constitute a mosaic of McDermott's philosophy, showing its roots in an American conception of experience. Though he draws heavily on the thought of William James and the pragmatists, McDermott has his own unique perspective on philosophy and American life. He presents this to the reader in exquisitely crafted prose. Drawing inspiration from American history, from existentialist themes, and from personal experiences, he offers a dramatic consideration of our culture's failures and successes. McDermott crosses disciplinary boundaries to draw on whatever works to help make sense of the issues with which he is dealing-issues rooted in medical practice, political events, pedagogical habits, and the worlds of the arts. His work thus resists simple categorization. It is precisely this that makes his vibrant prose appealing to so many both inside and outside the world of American philosophy.
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Added Author Anderson, Douglas R., editor.
Anderson, Douglas, contributor.
Series American Philosophy
In Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
Fordham University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
Available in Other Form print 9780823226634
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Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Reading McDermott
Prelude: Remarks upon Receiving the 2004 Presidential Teaching Award
Prescript
Part 1: An American Angle of Vision
Poem: Roots/Edges
1 Threadbare Crape
2 An American Angle of Vision, Part1
3 An American Angle of Vision, Part2
4 Spires of Influence
5 Josiah Royce's Philosophy of the Community
6 Possibility or Else!
Part 2: Environing
Poem: The Professional Tin Cup
7 A Relational World
8 Nature Nostalgia and the City
9 Space, Time, and Touch
10 Glass without Feet
Part 3: Turning
Poem: Waiting
11 Why Bother
12 Ill-at-Ease
13 ''Turning'' Backward
14 The Inevitability of Our Own Death
15 Isolation as Starvation
Part 4: Bequeathing
Poem: Deadlines
16 Hast Any Philosophy in Thee, Shepherd?
17 The Cultural Immortality of Philosophy as Human Drama
18 To Be Human Is to Humanize
19 Experience Grows by Its Edges
20 The Aesthetic Drama of the Ordinary
Part 5: Teaching
Poem: lurking
21 The Gamble for Excellence
22 Liberty and Order in the Educational Anthropology of Maria Montessori
23 The Erosion of Face-to-Face Pedagogy
24 Cultural Literacy
25 Trumping Cynicism with Imagination
Finis
Notes
Index

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