American Philosophy and the Romantic Tradition

by Russell B. Goodman

Book Overview

Professional philosophers have tended either to shrug off American philosophy as negligible or derivative or to date American philosophy from the work of twentieth century analytical positivists such as Quine. Russell Goodman expands on the revisionist position developed by Stanley Cavell, that the most interesting strain of American thought proceeds not from Puritan theology or from empirical science but from a peculiarly American kind of Romanticism...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521067650
• ISBN13: 9780521067652
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"