American Philosophy (32 page)

Japan

Jena

John, Gospel of

John, Saint

Johnson, Lyndon

Joyce, James

Jung, Carl

Kant, Immanuel;
Critique of Judgment
;
Critique of Pure Reason
; Emerson and;
Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals

Keene, New York

Kemmel Hill

Kennedy, John F.

Kepler, Johannes

Kies, Marietta

Kilmainham Treaty

Knapp, Adeline

Kuhn, Thomas

labor unions

Ladies' Home Journal, The

Ladies' Land League

Laocoön and His Sons

Laocoön story

Laymen's Foreign Mission Inquiry

Lee, Henry

Lee, Joseph

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm

lesbianism

Levinas, Emmanuel

libraries; Harvard; Hocking

Library of Congress

Life
magazine

life's worth, question of

Lincoln, Abraham

liver

Locke, John;
Two Treatises of Government

Lodge, Henry Cabot

logic

London; Toynbee Hall

Lotus Sutra, The

Lotze, Hermann

love; evolutionary

Lowell, James Russell

loyalty

Luce, Henry

Luther, Martin; 95 Theses

Lyme disease

Maimonides

Malebranche, Nicolas

Marcel, Gabriel; Hocking and;
Homo Viator
;
The Mystery of Being

marginalia

marriage; end of; Hocking; “mixed-race”

masonry

Massachusetts Bay Colony

materialism

mathematics

Maxwell, John Bayard

Mayflower

Mead, George Herbert

meat

memory

mental illness

Messines, Battle of

metaphysics

Methodism

Mexican-American War

MGM

Michigan

Middle Ages

Middlebury College

Mifflin, George

military engineering

Mill, John Stuart;
On Liberty

Milton, John

Mind

misanthropy

misogyny

missionaries

Mitchell, Weir

Montaigne, Michel

moon

morality

moral subjectivism

More, Henry

morphine

Mount Auburn Cemetery

Mount Marcy

Mount Washington

Müller, Max,
Sacred Books of the East

mystery

mysticism

Nanking

National Consumers League

natural selection

nature

neoclassicism

Neoplatonism

neurasthenia

New Hampshire

Newton, Isaac

New York

New York Times, The

New York Twilight Club

Nickerson, Bunn

Nickerson Mill

Niebuhr, Reinhold

Nietzsche, Friedrich

nitrous oxide

Nobel Prize

North American Review

Norton, Charles Eliot

oneness

O'Reilly, John Boyle; death of; “The Dreamer”; Whitman and

O'Reilly, Mary

Ostrogoths

Overseas Missionary Board

painting

Paley, William

Palmer, George Herbert

Panther Gorge

Panther Lodge

parapsychology

Paris; International Exposition

Parnell, Anna

Parnell, Charles Stewart

Parnell, Fanny; “Hold the Harvest”; “Ireland, Mother”

Pascal; Wager of

Peak House

Peirce, Benjamin

Peirce, Charles Sanders; “Design and Chance”; “Evolutionary Love”;
The Journal of Speculative Philosophy
; love and

Peirce, Juliette

Peirce, Zina

Peloponnesian War

phenomenology

Philadelphia

Philosopher's Camp

phrenology

Pilot, The

Piper, Leonora

Plato;
Apology
;
Crito
;
Phaedrus
;
The Republic

Plotinus

pluralism

Plymouth Colony

Poe, Edgar Allan

Popper, Karl

Portinari, Beatrice

postmodernism

pragmatism, American; Chicago school of; decline of; in relation to idealism; in relation to purgatory.
See also specific philosophers and works

Preparedness Movement

Presbyterianism

Presbyterian Mission Committee

pride

Proculus

progressive education; Shady Hill School

Protestantism

Provincial Congress

psychology

Pulitzer Prize

purgatory

Puritans

Putnam, Ellen

Putnam, James Jackson

Putnam Camp

Rabelais, François

Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study

rationalism

Reading, Pennsylvania

rebirth

reflection

Reformation

reform movement

religion.
See also specific religions

Renaissance

Renouvier, Charles

“rest cure”

Revolutionary War

Richardson, Robert

Ricoeur, Paul

Ripley, Ezra

Robbins, Reginald

Rockefeller, John D.

Rockford Female Seminary

Romanticism

Rome

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Roosevelt, Franklin

Roosevelt, Teddy

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

Royalists

Royal Society

Royce, Christopher

Royce, Josiah; background of; Harvard and; idealism and; last written words of;
Lectures on Modern Idealism
; “The Miner's Grave”;
The Philosophy of Loyalty
;
The Religious Aspect of Philosophy
;
The Sources of Religious Insight
;
The Spirit of Modern Philosophy
;
The World and the Individual

Royce, Stephen

Russell, Bertrand

Sachs, Paul

St. Botolph Club

St. Thomas Episcopal Church, New York City

salvation; Dante and

San Francisco; 1906 earthquake

Santayana, George

Sargent, John Singer

Sarton, May;
I Knew a Phoenix
;
Journal of a Solitude

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Saturday Club

Schelling, Friedrich;
On the Possibility and Form of Philosophy in General

Schiller, F.C.S.

Schlesinger, Arthur

Schlesinger, Marian Cannon

Schopenhauer, Arthur

science

Scotland

scything

séances

second chances

self-determination

self-knowledge

self-reliance

self-respect

Seuse, Heinrich

sexism

Shady Hill School

Shakespeare, William

Shelley, Percy Bysshe; “Ode to the West Wind”

skepticism

slavery

slipform masonry

Smith, Huston

Smith College

Socrates

solipsism

Sophocles

soul

Southey, Robert

Spain

Spencer, Herbert;
First Principles

Spinoza, Baruch

spiritualism

Starr, Ellen, Gates

Stevens, Wallace; “Chocorua to Its Neighbors”

Stickley furniture

suicide

supernatural

surgery

Suzuki, D. T.

Swedenborg, Emanuel

Sydenstricker, Absalom

Taoism

Tarde, Gabriel

taxation

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord

Thackeray, William

Thirty Years' War

Thoreau, Henry David; physical appearance of; self-loathing of; at Walden;
Walden
; “Walking”

three-quarter calf binding

Tiffany lamps

Times
of London

Token, The

Tolstoy, Leo

Toynbee Hall, London

Transcendentalism

transubstantiation

Traubel, Horace;
With Walt Whitman in Camden

travel

treason

trench warfare

Trojan horse

Troy

truth

tuberculosis

Tübingen

Tübinger Stift

Tucker, Ellen Louisa

Twain, Mark

Unitarianism

University of California

University of Cambridge

University of Chicago

University of Dayton

University of Edinburgh

University of Hawaii

University of Massachusetts Lowell; Hocking library donated to; O'Leary Library

University of Southern Maine

unseen, reality of the

utopianism

Vatican

Vedas

vellum

Vermont

Victorian era

Virgil;
Aeneid

Walden Pond

walking

Wallace, David Foster;
Infinite Jest
; “This Is Water”

Walpurgisnacht

Walsh, Richard

Warren, Henry Clarke,
Buddhism in Translations

Washington, D.C.

West, Cornel

West Wind; appraisal of estate; attic; construction of; ecosystem of; legacy of; library; rescue plan; skylights

Whitehead, Alfred North; Harvard and; Hocking and;
Principia Mathematica
;
Process and Reality
;
Science and the Modern World

White Mountains

Whitman, Walt; Emerson and;
Leaves of Grass
; John Boyle O'Reilly and

Wiley, Jennifer

will; free

William James Lectures

Williams, Mary

Witches Night

Wolff, Christian;
Cosmology

women; Jane Addams; Lydia Maria Child; at Harvard; Agnes Hocking; “hysteria” diagnosis; Fanny Parnell; in philosophy field; rights of; sexism and

Women's Medical College

wonder

Woolf, Virginia

World's Columbian Exposition (1893)

World's Parliament of Religions (1893)

World War I

Wright, Chauncey

Yale University

Year-book of Spiritualism for 1871, The

Yeats, William Butler

YMCA

 

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John Kaag
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Idealism, Pragmatism, and Feminism
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Thinking Through the Imagination: Aesthetics in Human Cognition
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CONTENTS

Title Page

Copyright Notice

Dedication

Epigraph

Prologue: Maybe

PART I: HELL

In a Dark Wood, a Library

Finding West Wind

“Pestilence-Stricken Multitudes”

Fraud and Self-Reliance

Walden and Frozen Lakes