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Foreword | |
The Philosophical Climate in Turn-of-the-(Last)-Century America | p. 1 |
Stephen Crane: Metaphysical, Epistemological, and Ethical Pluralism | |
Spectators and/or Participants: Crane on Epistemological Privilege" | p. 15 |
"In the Depths of a Coal Mine": Crane's Metaphysics of Experience | p. 24 |
Ethical Tolerance and Sociological Savvy: Crane's Travels in Mexico | p. 33 |
"Matters of Conscience" and "Blunders of Virtue": Crane on the Varieties of Heroism, or Why Moral Philosophers Need Literature | p. 42 |
Human Solidarity in an Indifferent Universe: Crane's Humanism | p. 55 |
William Dean Howells and Harold Frederic: Ethical and Religious Pragmatism | |
Nineteenth-Century Business Ethics and The Rise of Silas Lapham | p. 67 |
Howells's Ethical Exegesis in The Rise of Silas Lapham | p. 85 |
Fakes and Good Frauds: Pragmatic Religion in The Damnation of Theron Ware | p. 104 |
William James, 'Theodore Roosevelt, Jack London, and Frank Norris: Heroism and the Strenuous Mood | |
Public Policy and Philosophical Critique: The James-and-Roosevelt Dialogue on Strenuousness | p. 121 |
The Strenuous Mood: London's The Sea- Wolf and James on Saints and Strongmen | p. 136 |
London's "South of the Slot" and James's "The Divided Self" | p. 149 |
Muscular and Moral Heroism in Norris's A Man's Woman | p. 162 |
Willa Cather, John Steinbeck, and Norman Maclean: Temperament, Memory, Community, and Work | |
Philosophical Pragmatism and Theological Temperament: 'The Religious and the Miraculous in Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop | p. 181 |
Cather's Phenomenology of Memory and James's "Specious Present" | p. 192 |
Tools, Work, and Machines in Cather's One of Ours | p. 202 |
Creating Community: Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath and Royce's Philosophy of Loyalty | p. 214 |
Human Dignity, Work, the Need for Community, and "the Duty of the Writer to Lift Up:" Steinbeck's Philosophy of Work | p. 222 |
Work, Friendship, and Community in Maclean's The River Runs Through It | p. 233 |
Suggestions for Further Reading and American Philosophy | |
Critical Edition Projects | p. 247 |
Index | p. 251 |
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