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THE AGRARIAN ROOTS OF PRAGMATISM
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| By: |
Paul B. Thompson (Editor), Thomas C. Hilde (Editor) |
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Hardback |
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£41.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0826513395 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780826513397 |
| Publisher: |
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
31 August, 2000 |
| Series: |
Vanderbilt Library of American Philosophy |
| Pages: |
344 |
| Description: |
This text contributes to the current re-examination of pragmatists and their environmental thought and to the appreciation of agrarian philosophies. |
| Synopsis: |
Critically analyzes and revitalizes agrarian philosophy by tracing its evolution.Today, most historians, philosophers, political theorists, and scholars of rural America take a dim view of the agrarian ideal that farmers and farming occupy a special moral and political status in society. Agrarian rhetoric is generally seen as special pleading on the part of farmers seeking protection from labor reform and environmental regulation while continuing to receive direct payments and subsidies from the public till.Agrarianism should not be viewed as a set of immutable claims about farming and political order, but as a tradition of moral and political philosophy that has evolved and deepened over the centuries. Agrarian naturalism--the belief that culture and conduct are conditioned by nature because they are of a piece with nature--becomes pragmatic naturalism, giving way to a new set of puzzles about how we are to understand the rural landscape and our responsibilities for its use. The agrarian idea that personality and sociability are integrated with the material transformation of the landscape can serve as the basis for a new, pragmatically grounded ethic of natural resources and rural development.The essays in this volume critically analyze and revitalize agrarian philosophy by tracing its evolution in the classical American philosophy of key figures such as Franklin, Jefferson, Emerson, Thoreau, Dewey, and Royce. Three chapters address the belief that farming peoples develop moral virtue and a taste for democracy as it evolved in the American context, and four examine how a reconstitution of agrarian themes might invigorate our nation's thinking on environment, food, and rural development policy.The Agrarian Roots of Pragmatism will be of broad interest to scholars of American philosophy, rural history, history of ideas, geography, and agricultural or natural resource policy. |
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bibliography, index |
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US |
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Vanderbilt University Press |
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Returnable |
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