American Philosophies From Wounded Knee to the Present: 2nd Edition
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Erin McKenna is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oregon, USA. She is the author of many philosophy books including Animal Pragmatism (2004) and Living with Animals (2020) and is co-editor of Pragmatist Feminism and the Work of Charlene Haddock Seigfried (Bloomsbury, 2022).
Scott L. Pratt is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oregon, USA. He is an expert in American philosophy and is author of books such as Native Pragmatism: Rethinking the Roots of American Philosophy (2002) and co-editor many philosophical volumes including American Philosophies: An Anthology (2002).
Encyclopaedic in scope, McKenna and Pratt offer a panoramic view of American Philosophies. Highly recommended as a first read and constant companion in a field that is large and contains multitudes.
Cythia Willett, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Philosophy at Emory University
A vital resource for anyone seeking to understand the intellectual traditions that have shaped—and contested—the meaning of American life. Erin McKenna and Scott L. Pratt have given us a volume that expands the boundaries of philosophy, bringing together voices from pragmatism, Indigenous thought, African American political reflection, feminist theory, and beyond. It resists the insularity of the standard canon and insists on the public, plural, and political dimensions of philosophy in the United States. With clarity and purpose, the volume invites readers to see philosophy not simply as abstract speculation but as a tool for navigating moral complexity, structural injustice, and democratic possibility. For scholars, students, and public thinkers, American Philosophies offers an indispensable guide to the ideas that continue to animate and unsettle the American experiment. It is a reader committed to the unfinished work of critical reflection and collective renewal.
Melvin Rogers, Edna and Richard Salomon Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Associate Director of the Center for Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, Brown University
McKenna and Pratt’s Second Edition of <i>American Philosophies</i> is a lucid and well-crafted exploration of the rich and diverse tradition of American thought, with a particular focus on philosophies of resistance. The book compellingly shows how pluralism, fallibilism, and the pragmatist tradition have historically challenged systems of domination. Especially timely today, it helps readers—both in the United States and abroad—understand how philosophy can resist dogma, shape collective futures, and remain rooted in lived experience. An essential resource for scholars, students, and readers interested in the intersections of philosophy, politics, and culture.
Andrea Parravicini, Department of Philosophy, Università degli Studi di Milano
American Philosophies offers the first historically framed introduction to the tradition of American philosophy and its contemporary engagement with the world.
Born out of the social and political turmoil of the Civil War, American philosophy was a means of dealing with conflict and change. In the turbulence of the 21st century, this remains as relevant as ever. Placing the work of present-day American philosophers in the context of a history of resistance, through a philosophical tradition marked by a commitment to pluralism, fallibilism and liberation, this book tells the story of philosophies shaped by major events and illustrates the ways in which philosophy is relevant to lived experience.
The 2nd edition of this book presents a survey of the historical development of American philosophy, as well as coverage of key contemporary issues in America including race theory, feminism, gender, indigenous peoples, philosophies of disability and environmentalism. In particular, it contains new coverage of Covid, the election of Donald Trump, American religious thought, and immigration history. It also takes seriously the dramatic political and social machinations of the past seven years and engages with emerging voices and traditions. This is a substantial and provocative introduction to the work of the major American thinkers and their contemporary interlocuters.
Prologue
Chapter 1: Introduction: American Philosophy Today
PART I—1894-1918
Chapter 2: Defining Pluralism: Simon Pokagon, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, and T.
Thomas Fortune.
Chapter 3: Evolution and American Indian Philosophy
Chapter 4: Feminist Resistance: Anna Julia Cooper, Jane Addams, and
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Chapter 5: Labor, Empire and the Social Gospel: Washington Gladden, Walter
Rauschenbusch, and Jane Addams
Chapter 6: A New Name for an Old Way of Thinking: William James
Chapter 7: Making Ideas Clear: Charles Sanders Peirce
Chapter 8: The Beloved Community and its Discontents: Josiah Royce and
the Realists
Chapter 9: War, Anarchism, and Sex: Emma Goldman and Margaret Sanger
Chapter 10: Democracy and Social Ethics: John Dewey
Chapter 11: Naturalism and Idealism, Fear and Conventionality: Mary
Whiton Calkins and Elsie Clews Parsons
PART II—1918-1939
Chapter 12: Race Riots and the Color Line: W. E. B. Du Bois
Chapter 13: Philosophy Reacts: Hartley Burr Alexander and Morris R. Cohen
Chapter 14: Creative Experience: Mary Parker Follett
Chapter 15: Cultural Pluralism: Horace Kallen and Alain Locke
PART III—1939-1979
Chapter 16: War and the Rise of Logical Positivism: Otto Neurath and
Rudolf Carnap
Chapter 17: McCarthyism and American Empiricism: Jacob Loewenberg,
Henry Sheffer, C. I. Lewis, and Charles Morris
Chapter 18: The Linguistic Turn: Gustav Bergmann, May Brodbeck, and
W. V. O. Quine
Chapter 19: Resisting the Turn: Donald Davidson, Wilfrid Sellars, and
the “Pluralist Rebellion”
PART IV—Applying Philosophy
Chapter 20: Philosophy Outside: John Muir, Aldo Leopold, Joseph Wood
Krutch, and Rachel Carson
Chapter 21: Economics and Technology: Lewis Mumford, C. Wright Mills,
and John Kenneth Galbraith
Chapter 22: Politics: John Rawls, Robert Nozick, Michael Sandel, Martha
Nussbaum, and Noam Chomsky
PART V—Social Revolutions
Chapter 23: Civil Rights: Martin Luther King, Jr., Richard Wright and
James Baldwin.
Chapter 24: Black Power: Malcolm X, James Cone, Audre Lorde, bell hooks,
Angela Davis, and Cornel West
Chapter 25: Latin American American Philosophy
Chapter 26: Red Power, Indigenous Philosophy: Vine Deloria, Jr. and
Contemporary American Indian Thought
Chapter 27: Feminism
Chapter 28: Engaged Philosophy and the Environment
Part VI: American Philosophy Today
Chapter 29: Recovering and Sustaining the American Tradition
Chapter 30: American Philosophy Revitalized
Chapter 31: The Spirit of American Philosophy in the New Century
Chapter 32: Race and American Philosophy
Chapter 33: Pragmatism and the politics of the Extreme
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Erin McKenna is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oregon, USA. She is the author of many philosophy books including Animal Pragmatism (2004) and Living with Animals (2020) and is co-editor of Pragmatist Feminism and the Work of Charlene Haddock Seigfried (Bloomsbury, 2022).
Scott L. Pratt is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oregon, USA. He is an expert in American philosophy and is author of books such as Native Pragmatism: Rethinking the Roots of American Philosophy (2002) and co-editor many philosophical volumes including American Philosophies: An Anthology (2002).