“…Modern novelists…”

“…Modern novelists…”

Table of Contents: “…Stephen Crane: the ironic hero -- Edith Wharton: the novelist of manners and morals -- Ellen Glasgow: the qualities of endurance -- Willa Cather: the artist's quest -- Sherwood Anderson: the search for unity -- Hart Crane: spokesman of vision -- Thomas Wolfe: the web of memory…”

Table of Contents: “…Perspectives -- The first forty years: 1900-1940 -- Migration: William Attaway and Blood on the forge -- Richard Wright: Native son and three kinds of revolution -- Race and sex: the novels of Chester Himes -- The Negro church: James Baldwin and the Christian vision -- History as blues: Ralph Ellison's Invisible man -- The new nationalism: Malcolm X -- The expatriate as novelist: William Demby -- Prospects: LeRoi Jones?…”

Table of Contents: “…Toward philosophy without mirrors -- Introduction: Metaphilosophical difficulties of lingustic philosophy -- Dewey’s metaphysics -- Philosophy and the mirror of nature -- Pragmatism, relativism, and irrationalism -- Nineteenth-century idealism and twentieth-century textualism -- Conversations with analytic philosophy -- From logic to language to play -- Pragmatism, Davidson, and truth -- Twenty-five years after -- Putnam and the relativist menace -- Analytic and conversational philosophy -- From anti-representationalism -- To political liberalism -- Philosophy as science, as metaphor, and as politics -- Solidarity or objectivity -- The priority of democracy to philosophy -- Freud and moral reflection -- Private irony and liberal hope -- Pragmatism, literature, and democracy -- The humanistic intellectual eleven theses -- Philosophers, novelists, and intercultural comparisons: Heidegger, Kundera, and Dickens -- De man and the American cultural left -- Feminism and pragmatism -- Human rights, rationality, and sentimentality -- Looking backwards from the year 2096 -- American national pride Whitman and Dewey -- Redemption from egotism -- Philosophy as cultural politics -- Truth without correspondence to reality -- Ethics without principles -- Justice as a larger loyalty -- Pragmatism as romantic polytheism -- Religion in the public square -- Is cultural recognition a useful concept for leftist politics? …”

Table of Contents: “…Dahl -- Thackeray, a novelist by accident / by J. Y. T. Greig -- A note on Dickens' humor / by D. …”