American Philosophies: An Anthology(Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies)

This anthology promotes a new vision: American Philosophy as complex and constantly changing, enlivened by historically marginalized, yet never silent, voices.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments viii Introduction 1 Prolegomenon to a Tradition: What is American Philosophy? 5 Leonard Harris Part I Origin and Teleology 7 1 Letter to the Taino/Arawak Indians, 1493 9 King Ferdinand of Aragon 2 Speeches 11 Sa-Go-Ye-Wat-Ha 3 How the World Began 15 Arthur C. Parker 4 The Interesting Narrative 22 Olaudah Equiano 5 A History of New York 32 Washington Irving 6 Nature 43 Ralph Waldo Emerson Part II Minds and Selves 63 7 Impressions of an Indian Childhood 65 Zit Kala Sa 8 Of Being and Original Sin 73 Jonathan Edwards 9 Principles of Psychology 88 William James 10 Self-Consciousness, Social Consciousness and Nature 108 Josiah Royce 11 Our Brains and What Ails Them 122 Charlotte Perkins Gilman 12 Race 134 W. E. B. Du Bois 13 The Genesis of the Self and Social Control 150 George Herbert Mead Part III Knowledge and Inquiry 163 14 Knowledge 165 Frances Wright 15 An Introduction to the Study of Phylosophy Wrote in America for the Use of a Young Gentleman 176 Cadwallader Colden 16 What Pragmatism Is 188 Charles Sanders Peirce 17 The Supremacy of Method 198 John Dewey 18 The Practice of Philosophy 211 Susanne K. Langer 19 An American Urphilosophie 223 Robert Bunge Part IV Community and Power 237 20 Traditional History of the Confederacy of the Six Nations 239 Committee of the Chiefs 21 Account of My Life 262 Benjamin Franklin 22 The Federalist Papers 270 Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay 23 Observations on the New Constitution 278 Mercy Otis Warren Part V Slavery and Freedom 287 24 The Pueblo Revolt, 1680 289 Don Antonio de Otermin 25 Fourth of July Address at Reidsville, New York, 1854 295 John Wannuaucon Quinney 26 Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World, 1829 298 David Walker 27 Prejudices Against People of Color, and Our Duties in Relation to this Subject 313 Lydia Maria Francis Child 28 Civil Disobedience 325 Henry David Thoreau 29 Oration, Delivered in Corinthian Hall, Rochester, July 5, 1852 337 Frederick Douglass 30 Woman versus the Indian 347 Anna J. Cooper Part VI Democracy and Utopia 359 31 Male Continence 361 John Humphrey Noyes 32 Democratic Vistas 374 Walt Whitman 33 Newer Ideals of Peace 389 Jane Addams 34 Anarchism: What It Really Stands For 405 Emma Goldman 35 What to Do and How to Do It 412 George Washington Woodbey 36 What the Indian Means to America 420 Luther Standing Bear 37 Our Democracy and the American Indian 423 Laura M. C. Kellogg 38 Cultural Pluralism 433 Alain L. Locke Index 446

About the Author :
Leonard Harris is Professor of Philosophy Professor at Purdue University. of Philosophy, He is editor of Racism (1999), The Critical Pragmatism of Alain Locke, (1999) and co-editor of Exploitation and Exclusion: Race and Class in Contemporary US Society (1992). Scott Pratt is Assistant Professor at the University of Oregon. He is co-editor of The Philosophy of Cadwallader Colden (forthcoming). Anne Waters is Assistant Professor at Texas Woman's University. She is the editor of American Indian Thought: A Philosophical Reader (Blackwell, forthcoming). She is also co-editor of Hypatia, Journal of Feminist Philosophy and is on the editorial board of Ayaanwayaamizin: An International Indigenist Philosophy Journal, and the Radical Philosophy Review.

Review :
"Leonard Harris, Scott L. Pratt, and Anne S. Waters have produced an anthology nurtured by a profound epistemological and cultural value pluralism. The text unapologetically reveals a diversity of philosophical perspectives and traditions previously marginalized by intellectual and political normative forces that have valorized a few white men as the ‘oracle voices' of American philosophy. This new, relevant, and highly engaging anthology will force academic and cultural gatekeepers to radically reassess what it means ‘to know and to be,' ‘to do American philosophy,' ‘to be an American,' and ‘to live democratically." George Yancy, Duquesne University and editor of Cornel West: A Critical Reader (Blackwell 2001)