America's Forgotten Poet-Philosopher

The Thought of John Elof Boodin in His Time and Ours

AvMichael A. Flannery

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-06-02
Mått:152 x 229 x 22 mm
Vikt:417 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:SUNY series in American Philosophy and Cultural Thought
Antal sidor:318
Förlag:State University of New York Press
ISBN:9781438495729

Utforska kategorier

Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion
Filosofi inom Filosofi och religion
Filosofiska discipliner inom Filosofi och religion

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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.

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"This is a superbly written, quite concise account of a lesser-known, but clearly important American philosopher of the first half of the twentieth century. Boodin's work clearly deserves to be better known, and Flannery does an excellent job in providing a very well-written account of this interesting individual's contribution." — Patrick H. Armstrong, author of All Things Darwin

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgmentsPrologue: Who Was John Elof Boodin? Introduction: Science and Its "Mad Clockwork of Epicycles": The Key to Understanding Boodin1. Boodin's Time2. Pragmatic Realism: Boodin's Metaphysics3. Evolution, 19254. A Theological Trilogy5. The Social Mind: Boodin's Sociology of Spirit6. Boodin in a Hostile WorldEpilogueAppendixGlossary of Important TermsNotesBibliographyIndex