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Book Condition: New
Jacket condition: No Dust Jacket
ISBN: 0374154481 / 9780374154486
Seller: Manyhills Books

Australia
About Item: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. New/No Dust Jacket. Hardcover. 259 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016. First Edition. *** CONDITION: This book is in new condition. More specifically: Boards have no wear, rubbing or soiling. Pages are clean and unmarked and in excellent condition. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: In American Philosophy, John Kaag - a disillusioned philosopher at sea in his marriage and career - stumbles upon a treasure trove of rare books on an old estate in the hinterlands of New Hampshire that once belonged to the Harvard philosopher William Ernest Hocking. The library includes notes from Whitman, inscriptions from Frost, and first editions of Hobbes, Descartes, and Kant. As he begins to catalog and preserve these priceless books, Kaag rediscovers the very tenets of American philosophy - self-reliance, pragmatism, the transcendent - and sees them in a twenty-first-century context. Hocking was one of the last true giants of American… Read More
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