Description
This volume covers the philosophical developments in the United Kingdom and the United States during the 19th century. It comprises thirty essays, divided into seven chapters, which survey the historical and institutional context (Section 1), empiricism and utilitarianism in Britain (Section 2), American pragmatism (Section 3), idealism and reactions to scepticism in Britain and America (Sections 4 and 5), and political and social philosophy in Britain/Colonial India as well as in America (Sections 6 and 7). The volume presents biographical details, the works, and the doctrines of key figures such as John Stuart Mill, Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, John Dewey, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lady Mary Shepherd, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Josiah Royce, and Margaret Fuller. The philosophical movements and thematic debates addressed include African American philosophy, empiricism, evolutionary thought, feminism, idealism, indigenous philosophy, pragmatism, transcendentalism, social reform, utilitarianism, and women philosophers. Additionally, each essay provides a comprehensive bibliography of primary and secondary literature. Jenny Keefe is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. Her research interests include Scottish Philosophy, British Idealism and Nineteenth-Century Philosophy. She is the editor of James Frederick Ferrier: Selected Writings (2011) and the author of articles and book chapters on Ferrier's philosophy and the British Idealists.Kipton Jensen is a Professor of Philosophy at Morehouse College. His scholarly interests include German Idealism, American Pragmatism, and the philosophy of religion. Jensen has published Hegel: Hovering, Parallel Discourses, and Howard Thurman and the Search for Common Ground.
