1 Threadbare Crape

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Reading McDermott 1
5. Prelude: Remarks upon Receiving the 2004 Presidential Teaching Award 5
6. Prescript 9
7. Part 1: An American Angle of Vision
8. Poem: Roots/Edges 15
9. 1 Threadbare Crape 23
10. 2 An American Angle of Vision, Part1 37
11. 3 An American Angle of Vision, Part2 60
12. 4 Spires of Influence 89
13. 5 Josiah Royce’s Philosophy of the Community 106
14. 6 Possibility or Else! 131
15. Part 2: Environing
16. Poem: The Professional Tin Cup 143
17. 7 A Relational World 145
18. 8 Nature Nostalgia and the City 167
19. 9 Space, Time, and Touch 185
20. 10 Glass without Feet 204
21. Part 3: Turning
22. Poem: Waiting 221
23. 11 Why Bother 223
24. 12 Ill-at-Ease 236
25. 13 ‘‘Turning’’ Backward 262
26. 14 The Inevitability of Our Own Death 278
27. 15 Isolation as Starvation 291
28. Part 4: Bequeathing
29. Poem: Deadlines 307
30. 16 Hast Any Philosophy in Thee, Shepherd? 309
31. 17 The Cultural Immortality of Philosophy as Human Drama 318
32. 18 To Be Human Is to Humanize 345
33. 19 Experience Grows by Its Edges 372
34. 20 The Aesthetic Drama of the Ordinary 390
35. Part 5: Teaching
36. Poem: lurking 405
37. 21 The Gamble for Excellence 407
38. 22 Liberty and Order in the Educational Anthropology of Maria Montessori 427
39. 23 The Erosion of Face-to-Face Pedagogy 449
40. 24 Cultural Literacy 458
41. 25 Trumping Cynicism with Imagination 476
42. Finis 493
43. Notes 495
44. Index 557