Ebook: American philosophy: from Wounded Knee to the present

Introduction -- Part I: 1894-1918. Defining pluralism : Simon Pokagon, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, and Thomas fortune ; Evolution and American Indian philosophy ; Feminist resistance : Margaret Fuller, Anna Julia Cooper, Jane Addams, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman ; Transcendental origins : Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau ; Labor, empire and the social gospel : Washington Gladden, Walter Rauschenbusch, and Jane Addams ; A new name for an old way of thinking : William James ; Making ideas clear : Charles Sanders Peirce ; The beloved community and its discontents : Josiah Royce and the realists ; War, anarchism, and sex : Emma Goldman and Margaret Sanger ; Democracy and social ethics : John Dewey ; Naturalism and idealism, fear, and conventionality : Mary Whiton Calkins and Elsie Clews Parsons -- Part II: 1918-39. Race riots and the color line : W.E.B. du Bois ; Philosophy reacts : Hartley Burr Alexander, Thomas Davidson, and Morris R. Cohen ; Creative experience : Mary Parker Follett ; Cultural pluralism : Horace Kallen and Alain LeRoy Locke -- Part III: 1939-79. War and the rise of logical positivism : Otto Neurath and Rudolf Carnap ; McCarthyism and American empiricism : Jacob Loewenberg, Henry Sheffer, C.I. Lewis, and Charles Morris ; The linguistic turn : Gustav Bergmann, May Brodbeck, and W.V.O. Quine ; Resisting the turn : Donald Davidson, Wilfrid Sellars, and the "pluralist rebellion" -- Part IV: Applying philosophy. Philosophy outside : John Muir, Aldo Leopold, Joseph Wood Krutch, and Rachel Carson ; Capitalism, power, and technology : C. Wright Mills, Lewis Mumford, and John Kenneth Galbraith ; Politics and justice : John Rawls, Robert Nozick, Michael Sandel, Martha Nussbaum, and Noam Chomsky -- Part V: Civil rights : Martin Luther King, Jr., Richard Wright and James Baldwin ; Black power : Malcolm X, James Cone, Audre Lorde, Bell Hooks, Angela Davis, and Cornel West ; Latin American American philosophy ; Red power, indigenous philosophy : Vine Deloria, Jr. and contemporary American Indian thought ; Feminist philosophy and practice ; Engaged philosophy and the environment -- Part VI: American philosophy today. Recovering and sustaining the American tradition ; American philosophy revitalized ; The spirit of American philosophy in the new century.;American Philosophy offers the first historically framed introduction to the tradition of American philosophy and its contemporary engagement with the world. Born out of the social and political turmoil of the Civil War, American philosophy was a means of dealing with conflict and change. In the turbulence of the 21st century, this remains as relevant as ever. Placing the work of present-day American philosophers in the context of a history of resistance, through a philosophical tradition marked by a commitment to pluralism, fallibilism and liberation, this book tells the story of a philosophy shaped by major events that call for reflection and illustrates the ways in which philosophy is relevant to lived experience. This book presents a survey of the historical development of American philosophy, as well as coverage of key contemporary issues in America including race theory, feminism, indigenous peoples, and environmentalism and is the ideal introduction to the work of the major American thinkers, past and present, and the sheer breadth of their ideas and influence. ;