American Philosophy: A Love Story
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The epic wisdom contained in a lost library helps the author turn his life aroundJohn Kaag is a dispirited young philosopher at sea in his marriage and his career when he stumbles upon West Wind, a ruin of an estate in the hinterlands of New Hampshire that belonged to the eminent Harvard philosopher William Ernest Hocking. Hocking was one of the last true giants of American philosophy and a direct intellectual descendent of William James, the father of American philosophy and psychology, with whom Kaag feels a deep kinship. It is James’s question “Is life worth living?” that guides this remarkable book. The books Kaag disc
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Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release date: 11 October 2016
ISBN-10 : 0374154481 | ISBN-13: 9780374154486
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Release date: 11 October 2016
ISBN-10 : 0374154481 | ISBN-13: 9780374154486
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