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Pluralism in Theory and Practice - Richard McKeon and American Philosophy (Hardcover, 1st ed)
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Pluralism in Theory and Practice - Richard McKeon and American Philosophy (Hardcover, 1st ed)
Series: Vanderbilt Library of American Philosophy
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Unknown to many, unintelligible to some, Richard McKeon (1900-1985)
is considered by those familiar with his work to be among the most
important of all twentieth-century philosophers. In a career that
spanned seven decades, McKeon published eleven books and more than
150 articles, inspired and intimidated generations of students
(among them Richard Rorty, Wayne Booth, and Paul Goodman), and
received most of the honors available to an American philosopher.
As a teacher and administrator at the University of Chicago, he was
instrumental in founding its general education program and
initiating the first interdisciplinary program in the humanities.
His achievements outside the university included a major part in
developing the first cultural and philosophical projects of UNESCO.
Fearsome in the classroom, he is renowned for his scholarly
brilliance; the problems he thought important, however, did not
occupy his colleagues' attention. Ironically, they are now the very
issues that present-day philosophers grapple with, namely
pluralism, the relationship of philosophy to the history of
philosophy, rhetoric and philosophy, the diversity of culture, and
the problems of communication and community. Pluralism in Theory
and Practice not only brings McKeon to the attention of
contemporary philosophers and students; it also puts his theories
into practice. Some of the essays explicate aspects of McKeon's
thought or situate him in the context of American intellectual and
practical engagement. Others take the concerns he raised as
starting points for inquiries into urgent contemporary problems,
or, in some cases, for reexamining McKeon's work as fertile ground
for shaping the direction of new investigation.
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