The Dance of Person and Place: One Interpretation of American

The Dance of Person and Place: One Interpretation of American Indian Philosophy (SUNY Series in Living Indigenous Philosophies)

Ever since first contact with Europeans, American Indian stories about how the world is have been regarded as interesting objects of study, but also as childish and savage, philosophically curious and ethically monstrous. Using the writings of early ethnographers and cultural anthropologists, early narratives told or written by Indians, and scholarly work by contemporary Native writers and philosophers, Shawnee philosopher Thomas Norton-Smith develops a rational reconstruction of American Indian philosophy as a dance of person and place. He views Native philosophy through the lens of a culturally sophisticated constructivism grounded in the work of contemporary American analytic philosopher Nelson Goodman, in which stories (or world versions ) satisfying certain criteria construct actual worlds words make worlds. Ultimately, Norton-Smith argues that the Native stories construct real worlds as robustly as their Western counterparts, and, in so doing, he helps to bridge the chasm between Western and American Indian philosophical traditions."
Country USA
Brand State University of New York Press
Manufacturer State Univ of New York Pr
Binding Paperback
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EANs 9781438431321
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Country	USA
Brand	State University of New York Press
Manufacturer	State Univ of New York Pr
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	unknown
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781438431321
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

The Dance of Person and Place: One Interpretation of American Indian Philosophy (SUNY Series in Living Indigenous Philosophies)