{"product_id":"a-history-of-philosophy-in-america-17202000-9780198250319","title":"A History of Philosophy in America  1720-2000","description":"\u003cp\u003eRanging from Joseph Bellamy to Hilary Putnam  and from early New England Divinity Schools to contemporary university philosophy departments  historian Bruce Kuklick recounts the story of the growth of philosophical thinking in the United States. Readers will explore the thought of early American philosophers such as Jonathan Edwards and John Witherspoon and will see how the political ideas of Benjamin Franklin  Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson influenced philosophy in colonial America. Kuklick discusses The Transcendental Club (members Henry David Thoreau  Ralph Waldo Emerson) and describes the rise of pragmatism centered on Metaphysical Club of Cambridge (and members William James  Oliver Wendell Holmes  and Charles Peirce). He examines the profound impact Darwinism had on American philosophy and looks at Idealists such as the Kantian Josiah Royce and the Hegelian John Dewey. The book shows how  in the twentieth century  the Nazi conquest of Europe unleashed a flood of European intellectuals onto these shores  including such major thinkers as Theodore Adorno  Erich Fromm  Rudolph Carnap  and Alfred Tarski. Finally  Kuklick examines the contributions of such contemporary philosophers as Sidney Hook and Willard Quine and such books as John Rawls A Theory of Justice and Herbert Marcuses One Dimensional Man. Kuklick pulls no punches in portraying the state of American philosophy today and its contested role in the intellectual life of the nation and the world. The range of philosophical thought in our nations history has been great  from Edwardss Religious Affections to Kuhns The Structure of Scientific Revolutions  and Bruce Kuklick has captured it all in a book that blends intricate details with sweeping vision.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45648221798453,"sku":"ByrdShop_0198250312","price":50.32,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780198250319.jpg?v=1781713269","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/a-history-of-philosophy-in-america-17202000-9780198250319","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}