{"product_id":"american-indian-thought-9780631223047","title":"American Indian Thought","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e* Covers American Indian thinking on issues concerning time, place, history, science, law, religion, nationhood, and art.  * Features newly commissioned essays by authors of American Indian descent.  * Includes a comprehensive bibliography to aid in research and inspire further reading. .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is a ground breaking volume. Its ideas intersect with diverse subfields of the discipline of philosophy as taught in North American universities. Each essay offers fresh ways of defining what philosophy is about.\" \u003ci\u003eIris Marion Young, University of Chicago\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Descendants of survivors of the ‘moral monstrosity’ of near genocidal oppression of Native peoples are now within the ranks of professional philosophers and are hard at work rescuing and rehabilitating Indian philosophical thought. By reading these essays carefully, respectfully, and with open minds we have an opportunity to do better by Indian peoples than was the shameful case several centuries ago, and since. We will be better persons and philosophers for having done so, and better citizens, too.\" \u003ci\u003eLucius T. Outlaw, Jr., Vanderbilt University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eAmerican Indian Thought\u003c\/i\u003e contrasts US indigenous philosophies with Western academic philosophy. The writers explain perspectives on metaphysics, epistemology, phenomenology, social and political philosophy, ethics, and aesthetics, in ways that will challenge, inspire and fascinate readers across disciplines.\" \u003ci\u003eNaomi Zack, University of Oregon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNotes on Contributors. \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: American Indians and Philosophy:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Vine Deloria, Jr.: Why We Respect Our Elders Burial Grounds.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Epistemology and Knowing:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Brian Yazzie Burkhart: What Coyote and Thales Can Teach Us.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. V.F. Cordova: Approaches to Native American Philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. John Dufour: Epistemology and Understanding.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Science, Math, Logic:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Gregory Cajete: A Philosophy of Native Science.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Thomas Norton Smith: Indigenous Numerical Thought.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Anne Waters: That Alchemical Bering Strait Theory.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV: Metaphysics and Being:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Ted Jojola: Notes on Identity, Time, Place, and Space.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Anne Waters: Language Matters: NonDiscreet NonBinary Dualism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Maureen E. Smith: Crippling the Spirit, Wounding the Soul: Native American Spiritual and Religious Suppression.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V: Phenomenology and Ontology\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. Marilyn Notah Verney: On Authenticity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. Leslie Nawagesic: The Phenomenology of a Mugwump Life.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. Anne Waters: Ontology of Identity and Interstitial Being.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VI: Ethics and Respect:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14. V.F. Cordova: Ethics: The We and the I.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15. Thurmond Lee Hester: Choctaw Conceptions of the Excellence of the Self, with Implications for a Native Education.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16. Laurie Anne Whitt: Commodification of Knowledge.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VII: Social and Political:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17. Steve Russell: Jurisprudence of Colonialism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18. Dale Turner: Oral Traditions and the Politics of (Mis)recognition.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19. Annette Arkeketa: Repatriation: Religious Freedom, Equal Opportunity, and Institutional Racism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VIII: Aesthetics:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20. V.F. Cordova: Ethics: From an Artist’s Point of View.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21. David Martinez: Along the Horizon A World Appears: George Morrison and the Pursuit of an American Indian Aesthetic.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22. Thurmond Lee Hester: On Philosophical Discourse: Some Intercultural Musings.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48865448558935,"sku":"9780631223047","price":30.35,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780631223047.jpg?v=1722274055","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/american-indian-thought-9780631223047","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}