American philosophy : a love story
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Main Flagstaff Public Library - Non-Fiction
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259 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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In American Philosophy, John Kaag--a disillusioned philosopher at sea in his marriage and career--stumbles upon a treasure trove of rare books on an old estate in the hinterlands of New Hampshire that once belonged to the Harvard philosopher William Ernest Hocking. The library includes notes from Whitman, inscriptions from Frost, and first editions of Hobbes, Descartes, and Kant. As he begins to catalog and preserve these priceless books, Kaag rediscovers the very tenets of American philosophy--self-reliance, pragmatism, the transcendent--and sees them in a twenty-first-century context. Hocking was one of the last true giants of American philosophy. After studying under Harvard's Philosophical Four--William James, George Santayana, Josiah Royce, and George Herbert Palmer--he held the most prestigious chair at the university for the first three decades of the twentieth century. And when his teachers eventually died, he collected the great books from their libraries (filled with marginalia) and combined them with his own rare volumes at his family's estate. And there they remained for nearly eighty years, a time capsule of American thought.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Kaag, J. J. (2016). American philosophy: a love story (First [edition].). FSG.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Kaag, John J., 1979-. 2016. American Philosophy: A Love Story. FSG.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Kaag, John J., 1979-. American Philosophy: A Love Story FSG, 2016.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Kaag, John J. American Philosophy: A Love Story First [edition]., FSG, 2016.
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