Download or read book American Modern written by Victorino Tejera and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1996 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in the American tradition, American Modern: The Path Not Taken describes how four major American thinkers practiced philosophy non-reductively by incorporating the arts and other human activities. Tejera provides a detailed analysis of Peirce, Dewey, Santayana, and Buchler, showing that the importance they placed on the human can cure what is missing in recent philosophy. American Modern will interest philosophers, historians of philosophy, and scholars of American intellectual history.