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The philosophy of Henry Bugbee defies traditional academic
categorization. Though inspired by Heidegger and American
Transcendentalism, he was also admired by the famous analytic
philosopher Willard van Orman Quine, who described him as the
ultimate exemplar of the examined life. Bugbee’s writings are
remarkably different in form and register from anything written in
twentieth-century American Philosophy. The beautifully written
essays collected here show Bugbee’s continuing commitment that
“anyone who throws his entire personality into his work must to
some extent adopt an aesthetic attitude and medium.” Together,
the book reintroduces a major thinker of nature, an environmental
philosopher avant la lettre who has much to contribute to American
and continental thought.
The philosophy of Henry Bugbee defies traditional academic
categorization. Though inspired by Heidegger and American
Transcendentalism, he was also admired by the famous analytic
philosopher Willard van Orman Quine, who described him as the
ultimate exemplar of the examined life. Bugbee's writings are
remarkably different in form and register from anything written in
twentieth-century American Philosophy. The beautifully written
essays collected here show Bugbee's continuing commitment that
"anyone who throws his entire personality into his work must to
some extent adopt an aesthetic attitude and medium." Together, the
book reintroduces a major thinker of nature, an environmental
philosopher avant la lettre who has much to contribute to American
and continental thought.
Gabriel Marcel and American Philosophy: The Religious Dimension of
Experience examines the philosophy of Gabriel Marcel and its
relationship to key figures in classical American Philosophy, in
particular Josiah Royce, William Ernest Hocking, and Henry Bugbee.
Few scholars have taken sufficient note of the fact that Gabriel
Marcel's thought is vitally informed by classical American
philosophy. Marcel's essays on Royce offer a window into the soul
of Marcel's recent philosophical development. The idealism of early
Marcel stemmed from an omnipresent sense of a "broken world"-an
experience of rent or tear within the tissue of experience similar
to what John Dewey referred to as an "inward laceration of the
spirit." Furthermore, Marcel's intuition concerning the primacy of
intersubjective experience can help us understand W. E. Hocking's
thought. Finally, Marcel's notion of l exigence ontologique
clarifies his relationship to Henry Bugbee. Marcel and Bugbee
explore the contour of experience-the indigenous circuit of
associations pertaining to the self as coesse. Through a reflexive
act Marcel refers to as "ingatherdness," the self undergoes
increasing degrees of unification by experiencing "an act of faith
made explicit only in a dialectical act of participation." David W.
Rodick shows that Marcel's relationship to these American
philosophers is not coincidental, but rather the philosophical
expression of his Christian faith. Marcel's most important legacy
is his commitment to unity of Christian philosophizing, a unity
derived from both reason and revelation. Its diversity stems from
the objective plurality of what is pursued as well as the
subjective plurality of those who pursue it. Christian
philosophizing seeks a truth that every Christian believes can
never be untrue to itself.
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