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Book Review

A History of Philosophy in America, 1720–2000. By Bruce Kuklick. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. xiv, 326 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-19-825031-2.)
Bruce Kuklick's A History of Philosophy in America, 1720–2000, surveys philosophical thinking from Jonathan Edwards to Richard Rorty. Kuklick is not encyclopedic. Rather, he discusses the central ideas of representative thinkers as he traces several themes across the decades. Kuklick mixes serious consideration of the ideas of key philosophic thinkers with an examination of the "social matrix" (p. xii) within which they thought and wrote. This is a critical history of philosophy, as Kuklick assesses the contributions of individual thinkers. He also critiques the philosophers' efforts to shape American thought and culture. . . .
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