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ALSO BY JOHN KAAG
Thinking Through the Imagination: Aesthetics in Human Cognition
Idealism, Pragmatism, and Feminism: The Philosophy of Ella Lyman Cabot
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
John Kaag is a professor of philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He is the author of Idealism, Pragmatism, and Feminism (2011) and Thinking Through the Imagination: Aesthetics in Human Cognition (2014). His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Harper’s Magazine, The Christian Science Monitor, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and many other publications. You can sign up for email updates here.
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CONTENTS
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Epigraph
Prologue: Maybe
PART I: HELL
In a Dark Wood, a Library
Finding West Wind
“Pestilence-Stricken Multitudes”
Fraud and Self-Reliance
Walden and Frozen Lakes
PART II: PURGATORY
The Task of Salvation
Divine Madness
On the Mountain
The Will to Believe
Evolutionary Love
PART III: REDEMPTION
A Philosophy of Loyalty
On the Steps
Women in the Attic
I Knew a Phoenix
East Wind
The Mystery of Being
Epilogue: The Cult of the Dead
Selected Bibliography and Suggested Reading
Acknowledgments
Index
Also by John Kaag
A Note About the Author
Copyright
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First edition, 2016
Excerpts from this book originally appeared, in slightly different form, in Harper’s Magazine and The Chronicle Review.
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Title: American philosophy: a love story / John Kaag.
Description: First [edition].|New York, NY: FSG, 2016.|Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Subjects: LCSH: Philosophy, American—Miscellanea.
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