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Book Synopsis* Portrays American Philosophy as complex and constantly changing. * Features readings from several different traditions of American Philosophy. * Provides a sense of the history and context of sophisticated, ongoing philosophical arguments.
Trade Review"Leonard Harris, Scott L. Pratt, and Anne S. Waters have produced an anthology nurtured by a profound epistemological and cultural value pluralism. The text unapologetically reveals a diversity of philosophical perspectives and traditions previously marginalized by intellectual and political normative forces that have valorized a few white men as the ‘oracle voices' of American philosophy. This new, relevant, and highly engaging anthology will force academic and cultural gatekeepers to radically reassess what it means ‘to know and to be,' ‘to do American philosophy,' ‘to be an American,' and ‘to live democratically." George Yancy, Duquesne University and editor of
Cornel West: A Critical Reader (Blackwell 2001)
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments viii
Introduction 1
Prolegomenon to a Tradition: What is American Philosophy? 5
Leonard Harris
Part I Origin and Teleology 7
1 Letter to the Taino/Arawak Indians, 1493 9
King Ferdinand of Aragon
2 Speeches 11
Sa-Go-Ye-Wat-Ha
3 How the World Began 15
Arthur C. Parker
4 The Interesting Narrative 22
Olaudah Equiano
5 A History of New York 32
Washington Irving
6 Nature 43
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Part II Minds and Selves 63
7 Impressions of an Indian Childhood 65
Zit Kala Sa
8 Of Being and Original Sin 73
Jonathan Edwards
9 Principles of Psychology 88
William James
10 Self-Consciousness, Social Consciousness and Nature 108
Josiah Royce
11 Our Brains and What Ails Them 122
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
12 Race 134
W. E. B. Du Bois
13 The Genesis of the Self and Social Control 150
George Herbert Mead
Part III Knowledge and Inquiry 163
14 Knowledge 165
Frances Wright
15 An Introduction to the Study of Phylosophy Wrote in America for the Use of a Young Gentleman 176
Cadwallader Colden
16 What Pragmatism Is 188
Charles Sanders Peirce
17 The Supremacy of Method 198
John Dewey
18 The Practice of Philosophy 211
Susanne K. Langer
19 An American Urphilosophie 223
Robert Bunge
Part IV Community and Power 237
20 Traditional History of the Confederacy of the Six Nations 239
Committee of the Chiefs
21 Account of My Life 262
Benjamin Franklin
22 The Federalist Papers 270
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay
23 Observations on the New Constitution 278
Mercy Otis Warren
Part V Slavery and Freedom 287
24 The Pueblo Revolt, 1680 289
Don Antonio de Otermin
25 Fourth of July Address at Reidsville, New York, 1854 295
John Wannuaucon Quinney
26 Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World, 1829 298
David Walker
27 Prejudices Against People of Color, and Our Duties in Relation to this Subject 313
Lydia Maria Francis Child
28 Civil Disobedience 325
Henry David Thoreau
29 Oration, Delivered in Corinthian Hall, Rochester, July 5, 1852 337
Frederick Douglass
30 Woman versus the Indian 347
Anna J. Cooper
Part VI Democracy and Utopia 359
31 Male Continence 361
John Humphrey Noyes
32 Democratic Vistas 374
Walt Whitman
33 Newer Ideals of Peace 389
Jane Addams
34 Anarchism: What It Really Stands For 405
Emma Goldman
35 What to Do and How to Do It 412
George Washington Woodbey
36 What the Indian Means to America 420
Luther Standing Bear
37 Our Democracy and the American Indian 423
Laura M. C. Kellogg
38 Cultural Pluralism 433
Alain L. Locke
Index 446
