The Primal Roots of American Philosophy: Pragmatism, Phenomenology, and Native American Thought

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I teach a course on William James at John F. Kennedy University, and one of my students came across this fine book and told me about it. Going forward I'm going to be using parts of it for my course. Professor Wilshire has given us a lively, well-informed study of the indigenous-experiential-ecological base within the thought of James, Dewey, Hocking, Bugbee, and other seminal and often-neglected American philosophers. The book's Foreword was provided by Ed Casey, who has written so much and so deeply about the experience of place, particularly in Western culture.

I love quotable books. Read this, in relation to the ongoing scientistic attack on contact with the world: "There is no mirror-lined mental domain in which we can sequester ourselves" (p. 55). Or this: "We do not float in the blue surveying the universe. We are humans sunk over our heads in the thingy and messy world" (p. 81). And a favorite, which I plan to use in my ecopsych course: "It is not merely the blueness of the sky that can possess us if we dilate to it. It is also animals and plants--those with great regenerative powers like snakes, or sage or red willow bark, or roots that regenerate themselves and grow in the dark" (p. 85).

With another reviewer of this book I would like to have heard more about native traditions other than Black Elk's, particularly the influence those found in the places where thinkers like James and Dewey worked and lived. Also, it would be nice to take a break from the customary transpersonalist equation of Native with experiential and hear more about other aspects of Native culture in terms of how they impacted American philosophy. The motif of reanimation is a key one in James' life and also in various Navajo customs, but I don't know of any direct influence and would like to.

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