In spite of an extensive secondary literature that bristles with philosophical labels concerning his "outlook," Stephen Crane's philosophy has been virtually ignored. Patrick Dooley's systematic examination of Crane's writings - novels, sketches, short stories, news dispatches, and poems, whether famous or previously ignored - discloses coherent but subtle metaphysical, epistemological, social, and ethical positions. Dooley provides a sustained, direct discussion of Crane's philosophy and offers vivid depictions of fundamental philosophical issues.Crane lived in a society that had lost confidence in religion's ability to answer questions about the nature of reality, the significance of human actions, the meaning of truth, and the validity of conventional morality. Crane's fundamental philosophical view, Dooley finds, is that reality is comprised of changing and interrelated processes.

The Pluralistic Philosophy of Stephen Crane

Literature & Fiction

Dooley, Patrick K.

History & Criticism

University of Illinois Press

The first extended analysis by a scholar formally trained in the discipline of philosophical inquiry. Dooley shows how Crane's philosophical pluralism, which represents his response to the acute moral uncertainties resulting from the decline of late nineteenth-century religious authority, allies him with the contextualism of such contemporary philosophers as William James, C. S. Peirce, and Josiah Royce." -- James B. Colvert, author of Stephen Crane

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Pragmatism As Humanism: The Philosophy of William James (Professional/Technical Series)

Burnham Inc Pub.

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