William James and Phenomenology

Wilshire, Bruce

Indiana Univ. Press

[Wilshire] establishes a phenomenology of theatre, a theory of enactment, and a theory of appearance, none of which American theatre... has ever had." ―Performing Arts Journal
... Wilshire makes unique contributions to understanding major aspects of the human condition in its necessary search for selfhood." ―Process Studies
It is one of the American classics." ―Human Studies

Role Playing and Identity: The Limits of Theatre as Metaphor (Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy)

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Indiana University Press

The Primal Roots of American Philosophy: Pragmatism, Phenomenology, and Native American Thought

Continuing his quest to bring American philosophy back to its roots, Bruce Wilshire connects the work of such thinkers as Thoreau, Emerson, Dewey, and James with Native American beliefs and practices. His search is not for exact parallels, but rather for fundamental affinities between the equally "organismic" thought systems of indigenous peoples and classic American philosophers.Wilshire gives particular emphasis to the affinities between Black Elk’s view of the hoop of the world and Emerson’s notion of horizon, and also between a shaman’s healing practices and James’s ideas of pure experience, willingness to believe, and a pluralistic universe. As these connections come into focus, the book shows how European phenomenology was inspired and influenced by the classic American philosophers, whose own work reveals the inspiration and influence of indigenous thought.Wilshire’s book also reveals how artificial are the walls that separate the sciences and the humanities in academia, and that separate Continental from Anglo-American thought within the single discipline of philosophy.

History

Penn State University Press

Continuing his quest to bring American philosophy back to its roots, Bruce Wilshire connects the work of such thinkers as Thoreau, Emerson, Dewey, and James with Native American beliefs and practices. His search is not for exact parallels, but rather for fundamental affinities between the equally "organismic" thought systems of indigenous peoples and classic American philosophers.
Wilshire gives particular emphasis to the affinities between Black Elk’s view of the hoop of the world and Emerson’s notion of horizon, and also between a shaman’s healing practices and James’s ideas of pure experience, willingness to believe, and a pluralistic universe. As these connections come into focus, the book shows how European phenomenology was inspired and influenced by the classic American philosophers, whose own work reveals the inspiration and influence of indigenous thought.
Wilshire’s book also reveals how artificial are the walls that separate the sciences and the humanities in academia, and that separate Continental from Anglo-American thought within the single discipline of philosophy.

William James and Phenomenology: A Study of the Principles of Psychology

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Ams Pr Inc

To think about genocide and terrorism is to accept an invitation from hell. In fact, hell may be too benign a term since it makes a kind of sense out of genocide and terrorism and ultimately begs the question: What is genocide? What sense does it make to kill or disable all members of an other group just because they are that other group: men, women, children? What sense can we make of genocide? The very meaning of 'sense' threatens to disintegrate. Get 'Em All! Kill 'Em! is the first systematic attempt to understand what, up until now, has seemed inexplicable. Author Bruce Wilshire uncovers what seems to be the deepest root of the genocidal urge: disgust and dread in the face of abounding, fecund, life itself_swarming, creeping, scurrying, unboundable, and uncontrollable. If his claims about the genocidal urge is true, genocide and terrorism are the ultimate anti-ecology. Get 'Em All! Kill 'Em! is a rare and seminal work by a distinguished and original thinker.

Get 'Em All! Kill 'Em!: Genocide, Terrorism, Righteous Communities

World

Lexington Books

To think about genocide and terrorism is to accept an invitation from hell. In fact, hell may be too benign a term since it makes a kind of sense out of genocide and terrorism and ultimately begs the question: What is genocide? What sense does it make to kill or disable all members of an other group just because they are that other group: men, women, children? What sense can we make of genocide? The very meaning of "sense" threatens to disintegrate. Get 'Em All! Kill 'Em! is the first systematic attempt to understand what, up until now, has seemed inexplicable. Author Bruce Wilshire uncovers what seems to be the deepest root of the genocidal urge: disgust and dread in the face of abounding, fecund, life itself? swarming, creeping, scurrying, unboundable, and uncontrollable. If his claims about the genocidal urge is true, genocide and terrorism are the ultimate anti-ecology. Get 'Em All! Kill 'Em! is a rare and seminal work by a distinguished and original thinker.

Americas

The Moral Collapse of the University Professionalism, Purity, and Alienation (SUNY Series, Educational Leadership

The Moral Collapse of the University: Professionalism, Purity, and Alienation (Philosophy of Education)

Education & Teaching

Higher & Continuing Education

State University of New York Press

One of America's foremost philosophers reflects on the discipline and its relation to everyday life. Thoreau wrote that we have professors of philosophy but no philosophers. Can’t we have both? Why doesn’t philosophy hold a more central place in our lives? Why should it? Eloquently opposing the analytic thrust of philosophy in academia, noted pluralist philosopher Bruce Wilshire answers these questions and more in an effort to make philosophy more meaningful to our everyday lives. Writing in an accessible style he resurrects classic yet neglected forms of inquiring and communicating. In a series of personal essays, Wilshire describes what is wrong with the current state of philosophy in American higher education, namely the cozy but ultimately suffocating confinements of professionalism. He reclaims the role of the philosopher as one who, like Socrates, would goad us out of self-contentedness into a more authentic way of being and knowing.

Fashionable Nihilism: A Critique of Analytic Philosophy

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William James and Phenomenology

Role Playing and Identity: The Limits of Theatre as Metaphor (Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy)

The Primal Roots of American Philosophy: Pragmatism, Phenomenology, and Native American Thought

The Primal Roots of American Philosophy: Pragmatism, Phenomenology, and Native American Thought

William James and Phenomenology: A Study of the Principles of Psychology

Get 'Em All! Kill 'Em!: Genocide, Terrorism, Righteous Communities

Get 'Em All! Kill 'Em!: Genocide, Terrorism, Righteous Communities

The Moral Collapse of the University: Professionalism, Purity, and Alienation (Philosophy of Education)

Fashionable Nihilism: A Critique of Analytic Philosophy

Fashionable Nihilism: A Critique of Analytic Philosophy