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The Rise of American Philosophy - Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1860-1930 (Paperback, New Ed)
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The Rise of American Philosophy - Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1860-1930 (Paperback, New Ed)
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The seventy years between the Civil War and the Depression mark the
most significant epoch of American philosophy. In this period
American pragmatism emerged, and men such as Charles Peirce,
William James, Josiah Royce, George Santayana, Alfred North
Whitehead, and C. I. Lewis made their enduring contributions to
Western thought. This book offers a reinterpretation of American
intellectual history of the period, using the relation of
philosophers to the primary academic institution - Harvard - as an
organizing theme. Bruce Kuklick argues that Harvard established an
intellectual community that helped to define the thought of these
men, and that the changing character of American philosophy must be
related to the emergence of the modern university. Beginning with
what he calls the Cambridge amateurs, Harvard-trained philosophers
who were unable to find university teaching positions, Kuklick goes
on to examine the thought of the "Golden Age" of American
philosophy. He shows how it centered on the dialogue between James
and Royce and their peers and demonstrates how it contributed to
its own transformation: the thinkers of this period were the first
generation of professional philosophers. They were pivotal in
establishing graduate training programs and the doctoral
apprenticeship system. They created the very academic framework in
which philosophy would narrow from its role as the integrator of
human intellectual concerns to a technical, scholarly discipline of
interest only to a small group of professors. This is intellectual
history at its best, or what Kuklick calls "the history of
difficult ideas." The author, historian and philosopher, tells a
fascinating story of the men, the ideas, and the institutions that
formed American philosophy. He has made a successful attempt to
bridge the gap between social history and the history of ideas.
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