America the Philosophical - Carlin Romano - Libros - Random House USA Inc - 9780345804709 - 23 de abril de 2013
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This bold, insightful book argues that America today towers as the most philosophical culture in the history of the world, an unprecedented marketplace for truth and debate.
 
With verve and keen intelligence, Carlin Romano?Pulitzer Prize finalist, award-winning book critic, and professor of philosophy?takes on the widely held belief that the United States is an anti-intellectual country. Instead he provides a richly reported overview of American thought, arguing that ordinary Americans see through phony philosophical justifications faster than anyone else, and that the best of our thinkers ditch artificial academic debates for fresh intellectual enterprises. Along the way, Romano seeks to topple philosophy?s most fiercely admired hero, Socrates, asserting that it is Isocrates, the nearly forgotten Greek philosopher who rejected certainty, whom Americans should honor as their intellectual ancestor. America the Philosophical is a rebellious tour de force that both celebrates our country?s unparalleled intellectual energy and promises to bury some of our most hidebound cultural clichés.


688 pages

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Publicado 23 de abril de 2013
ISBN13 9780345804709
Editores Random House USA Inc
Páginas 688
Dimensiones 132 × 203 × 34 mm   ·   639 g
Lengua Inglés  

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