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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... says Mumford , " the first American philosopher with a fresh doctrine .... He was an original , in the sense that he was a source ... a sort of living essence " ( Mumford 1926 , 94– 95 ) . American thought in general and American ...
... says , " has exhibited its own original and unmistakable spirit " ( Smith 1963 , xi ) . As for Mumford a generation before , the promise of originality has more often surrendered to the parent thinking of British and continental phi ...
... says , " has only expressed in the form of an explicit maxim what [ the English philosophers ' ] sense for reality led them all instinctively to do . The great English way of investigating a conception is to ask yourself right off ...
... says , derives from Kant's distinction between praktisch and pragmatisch , " the former belonging in a region of thought where no mind of the experimentalist type can ever make sure of solid ground under his feet , the latter expressing ...
... says , " to be sure , show the influence of past thinkers from Plato and Aristotle to the philosophers of the nineteenth century ; the important point , however , is that they were reshaped in the light of the experience of American ...
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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 |