This pioneering work explores why our culture is plagued by addictions--by giving serious attention to our genetic legacy from our hunter-gatherer ancestors.
Continuing his quest to bring American philosophy back to its roots, Bruce Wilshire connects the work of such thinkers as Thoreau, Emerson, Dewey, and James with Native American beliefs and practices.
In his nine essay case against analytic philosophy, William James-admirer Wilshire (philosophy, Rutgers U.) discusses the nihilistic consequences of failing to reflect on the self, a pluralist rebelli
"[Wilshire] establishes a phenomenology of theatre, a theory of enactment, and a theory of appearance, none of which American theatre... has ever had." —Performing Arts Journal"... Wilshire makes uniq
Wilshire (philosophy, Rutgers U.) traces the variety of addictions in modern affluent society to our genetic legacy from hunting-gathering ancestors and to the unique way people adapt to their environ
This book, originally published by Capricorn Books in 1968, contains writings by the chief exponents of romanticism and the evolutionary theory in its various applications:
In this capstone work, the late Bruce Wilshire seeks to rediscover the fullness of life in the world by way of a more complete activation of the body's potentials. Appealing to our powers of hearing a
In this capstone work, the late Bruce Wilshire seeks to rediscover the fullness of life in the world by way of a more complete activation of the body's potentials. Appealing to our powers of hearing a