| Author/Contributor(s): | Conkin, Paul |
| Publisher: | Baylor University Press |
| Date: | 08/01/2006 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
Eight brilliant and original American thinkers - Edwards, Franklin, John Adams, Emerson, Peirce, William James, Dewey, and Santayana - are the subject of this widely admired book by one of America's foremost writers of intellectual history. In this study, the author finds a degree of continuity and some elements of underlying unity in the varied and idiosyncratic thoughts of these men. Instead of superficial similarities, he emphasizes a common moral tenor, an instrumental conception of knowledge, and a broad, ethical conception of art.