Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-288) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Inheritance, teaching, and the insane angels of American culture : our cultural invisibility -- Some preliminary remarks on the origins of pragmatism -- Royce, philosophy, and wandering : a job description -- Wilderness as philosophical home -- Working certainly and Deweyan wisdom -- Wildness as political act -- "After all, he's just a man" : the wild side of life in country music -- William James and the wild beasts of the philosophical desert -- John Dewey's sensible mysticism -- "Born to run" : male mysticism on the road -- Philosophy as teaching : James's "Knight errant," Thomas Davidson -- Learning and teaching : gambling, love, and growth / (with Michael Ventimiglia) -- Emerson's platonizing of American thought -- American loss in Cavell's Emerson -- Emerson and Kerouac : Grievous angels of hope and loss -- Pragmatic intellectuals : facing loss in the spirit of American philosophy.
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