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Book SynopsisThis work describes how four major American thinkers practiced philosophy non-reductively by incorporating the arts and other human activities. It analyzes Peirce, Dewey, Santayana and Buchler, showing how the importance they placed on the human can cure what is missing from recent philosophy.
Trade ReviewTejera writes with passion and brings us in contact with the greatest philosophers of our native tradition. -- John Lachs, Vanderbilt University
. . . a superb clarification of the complex philosophy of Buchler and of its relation to the philosophies of Peirce and Dewey...an invaluable contribution to the field of American classical philosophy. -- Thelma Z. Lavine, George Mason University
Tracing the path he believes philosophy should take, Tejera concentrates on Pierce, Dewey, Santayana, and Justus Buchler. His approach to these thinkers and their interpreters as well as to other contemporary schools of thought is distinctive and critical. -- Beth J. Singer, Brooklyn College
Tejera has superb insight into the themes and ambitions characteristic of America's greatest philosophers, which he articulates with force and accuracy . . . readers will be able to identify the considerable differences betweent these philosophies and other schools of thought, and they will appreciate the significance of these differences. -- James Gouinlock, Emory University
Table of ContentsChapter 1 Peirce's Semiotic Philosophy: A Methodeutic of Art and Science Chapter 2 Dewey's Philosophy of Culture Chapter 3 Philosophy as Spiritual Discipline in Santayana: Asthetics, Metaphysics, and Intellectual History Chapter 4 Buchler's Metaphysics: The Dimensions of the Reflective Activity Chapter 5 American Philosophic Historiography Chapter 6 Index
