Seven. William James and the Wild Beasts of the Philosophical Desert

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Preface ix
5. Introduction: Inheritance, Teaching, and the Insane Angels of American Culture: Our Cultural Invisibility 1
6. One. Some Preliminary Remarks on the Origins of Pragmatism 19
7. Two. Royce, Philosophy, and Wandering: A Job Description 33
8. Three. Wilderness as Philosophical Home 50
9. Four. Working Certainty and Deweyan Wisdom 65
10. Five. Wildness as Political Act 85
11. Six. ‘‘After All, He’s Just a Man’’ 94
12. Seven. William James and the Wild Beasts of the Philosophical Desert 112
13. Eight. John Dewey’s Sensible Mysticism 129
14. Nine. ‘‘Born to Run’’ 142
15. Ten. Philosophy as Teaching 155
16. Eleven. Learning and Teaching 167
17. Twelve. Emerson’s Platonizing of American Thought 188
18. Thirteen. American Loss in Cavell’s Emerson 206
19. Fourteen. Emerson and Kerouac: Grievous Angels of Hope and Loss 221
20. Fifteen. Pragmatic Intellectuals 234
21. Notes 255
22. Bibliography 281
23. Index 289