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American and European Values: Contemporary Philosophical Perspectives
Editor: Matthew Caleb Flamm, John Lachs, and Krzysztof Piotr Skowroñski
Date Of Publication: Apr 2008
Isbn13: 9781847185006
Isbn: 1-84718-500-2
American and European Values: Contemporary Philosophical Perspectives is a collection of essays by contemporary scholars considering key aspects of intersection and encounter between American and European values in the contemporary world. The truly international makeup of twenty-one contributors enlivens the book's theme in surprising, and frequently edifying ways. The authors consider, in places with revealing frankness, the cultural sensibilities unique to America and Europe, key historical philosophic figures, from John Dewey, Josiah Royce, and William James to Jean-Paul Sartre, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Mikhail Bakhtin. They also take up various philosophic trends and movements unique to the American and European traditions, including pragmatism, existentialism, phenomenology, and logical-linguistic analysis. Readers interested in deepening their understanding of the increasingly vital philosophical problems that continue to emerge with growing trends of globalization are invited into this rich conversation.

John Lachs, Ph.D. is Centennial Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA. He is the author of Intermediate Man (Hackett), Mind and Philosophers (Vanderbilt), In Love with Life (Vanderbilt), A Community of Individuals (Routledge), George Santayana (Twayne), On Santayana (Wadsworth), and other books.

Matthew Caleb Flamm, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Rockford College, in Illinois, USA. He has articles on George Santayana and John Dewey appearing in Overheard in Seville: The Bulletin of the Santayana Society, Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, and Education and Culture. He is contributor and co-editor, along with Chris Skowroński of Under Any Sky: Contemporary Readings of George Santayana (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007).

Krzysztof (Chris) Piotr Skowroński, PhD. currently teaches Contemporary Philosophy, Aesthetics, Cultural Anthropology, Polish Philosophy, and American Philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy, Opole University, Poland. Books: Santayana and America. Values, Liberties, Responsibility (Cambridge Scholars), Under Any Sky. Contemporary Readings of George Santayana. Ed. with Matthew Flamm (Cambridge Scholars).

"This well crafted volume provides unflinching assessments of the philosophical values that are beginning to unite – and that continue to divide – the cultures of America and Europe. Its contributors offer arguments that are once timely, provocative, and accessible. "

—Larry A. Hickman, Ph.D, Director at The Center for Dewey Studies, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Carbondale IL

"American and European Values is a far richer book than a misreading of its title might suggest: it is truly a "both (American)-and (European)," not an "either-or." The perspectives of its contributors range over time and place, from the anarchic California of Gold Rush days to modern Poland, Russia, and Turkey. Eclectic in the best sense of that word, it combines philosophy, literature, history, and even religion without ever straying far from its central theme. And, somewhat incidentally, it also demonstrates just how multifaceted and complex is the idea of "pragmatism." "

—William McBride, Ph.D. is Arthur G. Hansen Distinguished Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Purdue University, Indiana.

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