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The drama of possibility : experience as philosophy of culture
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The drama of possibility : experience as philosophy of culture

John J. McDermott

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An American angle of vision
Poem : roots/edges
Threadbare crape : reflections on the American strand
An American angle of vision, part 1
An American angle of vision, part 2
Spires of influence : the importance of Emerson for classical American philosophy
Josiah Royce's philosophy of the community : danger of the detached individual
Possibility or else! : the philosophy of William James
Environing
Poem : professional tin cup
A relational world : the significance of the thought of William James and John Dewey for global culture
Nature nostalgia and the city : an American dilemma
Space, time, and touch : philosophical dimensions of urban consciousness
Glass without feet : dimensions of urban aesthetics
Turning
Poem : waiting
Why bother : is life worth living? : experience as pedagogical
Ill-at-ease : the natural travail of ontological disconnectedness
"Turning" backward : the erosion of moral sensibility
The inevitability of our own death : the celebration of time as a prelude to disaster
Isolation as starvation : John Dewey and a philosophy of the handicapped
Bequeathing
Poem : deadlines
Hast any philosophy in thee, shepherd?
The cultural immortality of philosophy as human drama
To be human is to humanize : a radically empirical aesthetic
Experience grows by its edges : a phenomenology of relations in an American philosophical vein
The aesthetic drama of the ordinary
Teaching
Poem : lurking
The gamble for excellence : John Dewey's pedagogy of experience
Liberty and order in the educational anthropology of Maria Montessori
The erosion of face-to-face pedagogy : a jeremiad
Cultural literacy : a time for a new curriculum
Trumping cynicism with imagination.

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