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America the Philosophical

ISBN: 9780679434702 | 0679434704
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf
Pub. Date: 5/22/2012

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SummaryTable of Contents
A bold, insightful book that rejects the myth of "America the Unphilosophical," arguing that America today towers as the most philosophical culture in the history of the world, an unprecedented marketplace for truth and debate that far surpasses ancient Greece or any other place one can name. With verve and keen intelligence, Carlin Romano--Pulitzer Prize finalist, award-winning book critic, and professor of philosophy--takes on the widely held belief that ours is an anti-intellectual society. Instead, while providing a richly reported overview... MORE
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Introductionp. 3
American Philosophy and the Tradition
Therapists, Bootstrappers, Infantryp. 27
Parsing Americap. 47
Great White Men and the Ivy League Cavalcadep. 66
Rorty's Revolutionp. 126
Abandoning Toothless Truth: Other White Males Muscle In
Persuasion and the Browsp. 161
Psychologists and Psychiatristp. 185
The Literary Criticsp. 208
The Political Theoristsp. 231
Linguist, Mathematician, Neurologistp. 250
The Casual Wisemenp. 260
The Print Journalistsp. 281
The Broadcastersp. 296
The Rising Outsiders
African Americansp. 313
Womenp. 344
Native Americansp. 443
Gaysp. 451
Gutenberg's Revenge: The Explosion of Cyberphilosophy
The Book Lives!p. 467
Cyberpoliticsp. 478
Cyberreligionp. 484
Cyberliteratuxep. 496
Cybercynicsp. 512
Isocrates: A Man, Not a Typo
Busting Isocratesp. 535
Isocrates's Lifep. 538
Images and Clichés of Isocratesp. 541
Sophists and Sophistryp. 543
Rhetoricians and Rhetoricp. 546
Isocrates, Philosopherp. 549
Isocrates, Greece and Americap. 555
Just Saying No to Justification: The Magnificent Failure of John Rawls
Not Since John Stuart Millp. 563
A Lucky Lifep. 567
Just Another Word for Nothing Left to Argue Aboutp. 575
Rawls on Justificationp. 583
"The Theory Is Not Successful"p. 591
Epilogue Obama, Philosopher in Chiefp. 596
Acknowledgmentsp. 607
Bibliographyp. 611
Interviewsp. 641
Indexp. 645
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