American Modern: The Path Not Taken - Aesthetics, Metaphysics, and Intellectual History in Classic American Philosophy

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

By Victorino Tejera

Summary

This work describes how four major American thinkers practiced philosophy non-reductively by incorporating the arts and other human activities. It analyzes Peirce, Dewey, Santayana and Buchler, showing how the importance they placed on the human can cure what is missing from recent philosophy.

Product details

• Authors: V. Tejera, Victorino Tejera
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780847683109
• ISBN: 978-0-8476-8310-9
• No. of pages: 226
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 454 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day