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Native pragmatism : rethinking the roots of American philosophy

Pragmatism is America's most distinctive philosophy. Generally, it has been understood as a development of European thought in response to the 'American wilderness'. A closer examination, however, reveals that the roots and central commitments of pragmatism are indigenous to North America. Native Pragmatism recovers this history and thus provides the means to re-conceive the scope and potential of American philosophy
eBook, English, ©2002
Indiana University Press, Bloomington, ©2002
1 online resource (xviii, 316 pages) : illustrations
9780253108906, 9781282062726, 9786612062728, 025310890X, 1282062727, 661206272X
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The problem of origins
American pragmatism
The colonial attitude
American progress
The indigenous attitude
Welcoming the cannibals
The logic of place
"This very ground"
Science and sovereignty
The logic of home
Feminism and pragmatism
English