The Blackwell Guide to American Philosophy

The Blackwell Guide to American Philosophy is a new addition to the exceptional Blackwell Philosophy Guides series. The editors, Armen T. Marsoobian and John Ryder, begin by emphasizing that: “This book is a guide to American philosophy, not to philosophy in America”. As such, they have assembled a volume of essays that address the historical classical period of American philosophy, the late 19th and early 20th century.

The book is organized to support the editor's premise that the philosophical thought of the classical American period evolved from numerous predecessors in the American philosophical landscape, individuals such as Emerson and Thoreau,...