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The Coddling of the American Mind, 2018 book by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt; The Occupation of the American Mind, 2016 documentary film; Scientific American Mind, a former American popular science magazine; Runyan v. State, an 1877 Indiana court case that argued that a "distinct American Mind" is against the duty to retreat
The term was coined by Pamela Paresky [8] and promulgated by The Coddling of the American Mind, [9] which described its status as "a sacred value", meaning that it was not possible to make practical tradeoffs or compromises with other desirable things (e.g., for people to be made to feel uncomfortable in support of free speech or learning new ...
American philosophy is the activity, corpus, and tradition of philosophers affiliated with the United States. The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy notes that while it lacks a "core of defining features, American Philosophy can nevertheless be seen as both reflecting and shaping collective American identity over the history of the nation". [1]
The Claremont Institute publishes the Claremont Review of Books, edited by Charles R. Kesler, which features regular columns by Martha Bayles, Mark Helprin, Michael Anton, and Spencer Klavan. The institute also publishes The American Mind. Claremont Vice President of Education Matt Peterson serves as editor, and James Poulos is executive editor.
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Pages in category "American philosophers of mind" The following 150 pages are in this category ...
The Conservative Mind (1953) The Conscience of a Conservative (1960) A Choice Not an Echo (1964) Losing Ground (1984) A Conflict of Visions (1987) The Closing of the American Mind (1987) The Bell Curve (1994) The Revolt of the Elites (1995) The Death of the West (2001) The Blank Slate (2002) Black Rednecks and White Liberals (2005) Hillbilly ...
The Closing of the American Mind draws analogies between the United States and the Weimar Republic. The modern liberal philosophy, he says, enshrined in the Enlightenment thought of John Locke —that a just society could be based upon self-interest alone, coupled by the emergence of relativism in American thought—had led to this crisis.
Russell Amos Kirk (October 19, 1918 – April 29, 1994) [1] was an American political philosopher, moralist, historian, social critic, literary critic, and author, known for his influence on 20th-century American conservatism. His 1953 book The Conservative Mind gave shape to the postwar