1st Edition

American Thought A Critical Sketch

By Morris Cohen Copyright 1954
448 Pages
by Routledge

448 Pages
by Routledge

What constitutes American thought is obviously too elusive to be encompassed by any one writer or group of writers. The best that any attempt at intellectual history can achieve is to indicate some of its traces in written records. This volume represents the eff orts of one of America's leading philosophers to do just that. He is uniquely qualified to do so, as his contemporary Sidney Hook well... Read more
Foreword; 1: The Background of the American Tradition; 2: American Ideas on History; 3: Scientific Thought; 4: Economic Thought; 5: Political Thought; 6: Legal Thought; 7: Religious Thought; 8: Aesthetics; 9: General Philosophy

Biography

Morris Cohen