1st Edition
Philosophy in the American West A Geography of Thought
212 Pages
by
Routledge
212 Pages
by
Routledge
212 Pages
by
Routledge
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Philosophy in the American West explores the physical, ecological, cultural, and narrative environments associated with the western United States, reflecting on the relationship between people and the places that sustain them .
The American West has long been recognized as having significance. From Crèvecoeur’s early observations in Letters from an American Farmer (1782), to Thoreau’s... Read more
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
- Introduction, Josh Hayes, Gerard Kuperus, Brian Treanor
- Continental Philosophy Beyond "the" Continent, Brian Treanor
- Prometheus’ Gift of Fire and Technics: Contemplating the Meaning of Fire, Affect, and Californian Pyrophytes in the Pyrocene, Marjolein Oele
- The West as Slaughterbench: Thinking without Revolutions in the American West, Christopher Lauer
- The End(s) of the West: The Time of Apocalypse in the Westerns of Cormac McCarthy, Amanda Parris
- The Trees of the West: Our Elders, Our Teachers, Andrew Jussaume
- Thinking Wolves, Thomas Thorp
- Robert Smith, Entropic Art, and the West, Shannon M. Mussett
- "Westering" and "BreakingThrough": Zen Buddhism on Cannery Row, Gerard Kuperus
- Life in Interregnum: Deleuze, Guattari, and Atleo, Russell Duvernoy
- Monstrous Topologies: Edward Abbey, Reiner Schürmann, and the Fate of the American West, Josh Hayes
- Turtle Island Anarchy, Jason Wirth
Index
Biography
Josh Hayes is Associate Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Humanities at Alvernia University, USA.
Gerard Kuperus is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of San Francisco, USA.
Brian Treanor is Charles S. Casassa Chair and Professor of Philosophy at Loyola Marymount University, USA.
