Waters

American Indian Thought

Philosophical Essays
Ed. by Anne Waters

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book brings together a diverse group of American Indian thinkers to discuss traditional and contemporary philosophies and philosophical issues.
Covers American Indian thinking on issues concerning time, place, history, science, law, religion, nationhood, and art.
Features newly commissioned essays by authors of American Indian descent.
Includes a comprehensive bibliography to aid in research and inspire further reading.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Blackwell Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Dezember 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 248mm x 169mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 604g
• ISBN-13: 9780631223047
• ISBN-10: 0631223045
• Artikelnr.: 13632077

Autorenporträt

Anne Waters is Research Associate at the Philosophy, Interpretation, and Culture Center at the State University of New York, Binghamton. Sheis the founder and President of the American Indian Philosophy Association. She edits the American Philosophical Association (APA) Newsletter on American Indian Philosophy and is chair of the APA Committee on American Indians in Philosophy. Among other publications, she is co-editor of American Philosophies: An Anthology (Blackwell, 2001).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments.

Introduction.

Part I: American Indians and Philosophy.

Part II: Epistemology and Knowing.

Part III: Science, Math, Logic.

Part IV: Metaphysics and Being.

Part V: Phenomenology and Ontology.

Part VI: Ethics and Respect.

Part VII: Social and Political.

Part VIII: Aesthetics.

Bibliography.

Index

Rezensionen

"This is a ground breaking volume. Its ideas intersect with diversesubfields of the discipline of philosophy as taught in NorthAmerican universities. Each essay offers fresh ways of definingwhat philosophy is about." Iris Marion Young, University ofChicago

"Descendants of survivors of the 'moral monstrosity'of near genocidal oppression of Native peoples are now within theranks of professional philosophers and are hard at work rescuingand rehabilitating Indian philosophical thought. By reading theseessays carefully, respectfully, and with open minds we have anopportunity to do better by Indian peoples than was the shamefulcase several centuries ago, and since. We will be better personsand philosophers for having done so, and better citizens, too."Lucius T. Outlaw, Jr., Vanderbilt University

"American Indian Thought contrasts US indigenousphilosophies with Western academic philosophy. The writers explainperspectives on metaphysics, epistemology, phenomenology, socialand political philosophy, ethics, and aesthetics, in ways that willchallenge, inspire and fascinate readers across disciplines."Naomi Zack, University of Oregon