America the philosophical /
Romano, Carlin.
America the philosophical / Carlin Romano. - 672 page : illustration 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [611]-639) and index.
"The theory is not successful" -- Epilogue. Obama, philosopher in chief. A lucky life Cybercynics -- Isocrates : a man, not a typo. Busting Isocrates Cyberliterature Cyberpolitics Cyberreligion Gays -- Gutenberg's revenge : the explosion of cyberphilosophy. The book lives! Great white men and the Ivy League cavalcade Images and clichés of Isocrates Isocrates, Greece and America -- Just saying no to justification : the magnificent failure of John Rawls. Not since John Stuart Mill Isocrates, philosopher Isocrates's life Just another word for nothing left to argue about Linguist, mathematician, neurologist Native Americans Parsing America Psychologists and psychiatrist Rawls on justification Rhetoricians and rhetoric Rorty's revolution -- Abandoning toothless truth : other white males muscle in. Persuasion and the brows Sophists and sophistry The broadcasters -- The rising outsiders. African Americans The casual wisemen The literary critics The political theorists The print journalists Women American philosophy and the tradition. Therapists, bootstrappers, infantry
A bold, insightful book that rejects the myth of America the Unphilosophical, arguing that America today towers as the most philosophical culture in the history of the world, an unprecedented marketplace of truth and argument that far surpasses ancient Greece or any other place one can name.Publisher's description.
9780679434702
2011034753
Philosophy--United States.
B 851 / .R662 2012
America the philosophical / Carlin Romano. - 672 page : illustration 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [611]-639) and index.
"The theory is not successful" -- Epilogue. Obama, philosopher in chief. A lucky life Cybercynics -- Isocrates : a man, not a typo. Busting Isocrates Cyberliterature Cyberpolitics Cyberreligion Gays -- Gutenberg's revenge : the explosion of cyberphilosophy. The book lives! Great white men and the Ivy League cavalcade Images and clichés of Isocrates Isocrates, Greece and America -- Just saying no to justification : the magnificent failure of John Rawls. Not since John Stuart Mill Isocrates, philosopher Isocrates's life Just another word for nothing left to argue about Linguist, mathematician, neurologist Native Americans Parsing America Psychologists and psychiatrist Rawls on justification Rhetoricians and rhetoric Rorty's revolution -- Abandoning toothless truth : other white males muscle in. Persuasion and the brows Sophists and sophistry The broadcasters -- The rising outsiders. African Americans The casual wisemen The literary critics The political theorists The print journalists Women American philosophy and the tradition. Therapists, bootstrappers, infantry
A bold, insightful book that rejects the myth of America the Unphilosophical, arguing that America today towers as the most philosophical culture in the history of the world, an unprecedented marketplace of truth and argument that far surpasses ancient Greece or any other place one can name.Publisher's description.
9780679434702
2011034753
Philosophy--United States.
B 851 / .R662 2012
