America's Forgotten Poet-Philosopher: The Thought of John Elof Boodin in His Time and Ours (Suny American Philosophy and Cultural Thought)

Flannery, Michael A

ISBN 10: 1438495714 / ISBN 13: 9781438495712

Edité par State University of New York Pre, 2023

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• Titre: America's Forgotten Poet-Philosopher: The Thought of John Elof Boodin in His Time and Ours (Suny American Philosophy and Cultural Thought)
• Éditeur: State University of New York Pre
• Date de parution: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1438495714
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781438495712
• Reliure: hardcover
• État de l'article: Very Good

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Illuminating study of the ideas and influences of a near-forgotten American philosopher.

This book examines the ideas and influences of a nearly forgotten Swedish-American philosopher, John Elof Boodin (1869-1950). A friend and student of William James and protégé of Josiah Royce at Harvard, Boodin combined Jamesian pragmatism and Roycean idealism in developing original scholarship (nearly sixty articles and eight books) from 1900 to 1947, in addition to a volume of posthumous papers published in 1957. Although he is seldom remembered today, the enduring importance of pragmatism and the rising influence of process theology today suggests that his close reading of early to mid-twentieth-century science and vast grasp of philosophical issues warrants a renewed interest in his work that can be a valuable antidote to the sterile and constricting effects of reductionism and dogmatic materialism prevalent today in both those fields.

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Michael A. Flannery is Professor Emeritus of UAB Libraries at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is the author of Nature's Prophet: Alfred Russel Wallace and His Evolution from Natural Selection to Natural Theology, among other books.