America the philosophical / Carlin Romano.
Material type:
TextNew York : Knopf, 2012Description: 672 page : illustration 25 cmContent type: - text
- volume
- 9780679434702
- B 851 .R662 2012
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American Learning Resource
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Aklatang Emilio Aguinaldo-Information Resource Center | B 851 .R662 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 9ALRC201100727 |
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.
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