Native Pragmatism: Rethinking the Roots of American PhilosophyIndiana University Press, 2002年4月1日 - 336 頁 Pragmatism is America's most distinctive philosophy. Generally it has been understood as a development of European thought in response to the "American wilderness." A closer examination, however, reveals that the roots and central commitments of pragmatism are indigenous to North America. Native Pragmatism recovers this history and thus provides the means to re-conceive the scope and potential of American philosophy. Pragmatism has been at best only partially understood by those who focus on its European antecedents. This book casts new light on pragmatism's complex origins and demands a rethinking of African American and feminist thought in the context of the American philosophical tradition. Scott L. Pratt demonstrates that pragmatism and its development involved the work of many thinkers previously overlooked in the history of philosophy. |
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... argue that American history is fundamentally a story of conquest , disposses- sion , slavery , and destruction ... argues against a single " American way " and in favor of a complex story of interaction among Europeans , Native ...
... argue , are pre- figured in indigenous thought at a time when European thought in America was marked by a set of contrary commitments . Second , there are at least some clear cases in the seventeenth , eighteenth , and early nineteenth ...
... argue that American pragmatism begins along the border between Native and European America as an attitude of resistance against the dominant attitudes of European colonialism . The first chapter sets the stage for a new history of ...
... argue that his conception of a pluralist community and the philosophical attitude that supports it is grounded in Native thought . Williams's work provides a crucial instance of how Native American thought could be transmitted to ...
... argue that a philosophical perspective already exists within the American tradition that offers an alternative to a vio- lent response to cultural pluralism . This perspective provides a logic that helps to defuse conflict while ...
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American Pragmatism | 17 |
The Colonial Attitude | 39 |
American Progress | 56 |
The Indigenous Attitude | 78 |
Welcoming the Cannibals | 107 |
The Logic of Place | 133 |
This Very Ground | 163 |
Science and Sovereignty | 189 |
The Logic of Home | 216 |
Feminism and Pragmatism | 244 |
The Legacy of Natlve American Thought | 272 |
References | 291 |
Index | 305 |