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American Philosophy and the Romantic Tradition
Paperback / softback
Main Details
Title |
American Philosophy and the Romantic Tradition
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Russell B. Goodman
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Series | Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture |
Physical Properties |
Format:Paperback / softback | Pages:180 | Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 152 |
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Category/Genre | Western philosophy from c 1900 to now |
ISBN/Barcode |
9780521067652
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Classifications | Dewey:191 191 |
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Audience | Professional & Vocational | |
Illustrations |
Worked examples or Exercises
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Cambridge University Press
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Imprint |
Cambridge University Press
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Publication Date |
10 July 2008 |
Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
Professional philosophers have tended either to shrug off American philosophy as negligible or derivative or to date American philosophy from the work of twentieth-century analytical positivists such as Quine. Russell Goodman expands on the revisionist position developed by Stanley Cavell, that the most interesting strain of American thought proceeds not from Puritan theology or from empirical science but from a peculiarly American kind of Romanticism. This insight leads Goodman, through Cavell, back to Emerson and Thoreau and thence to William James and John Dewey, as they assimilated to American circumstances and intellectual habits the currents of European thought from Kant to Wittgenstein.
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