Table of Contents
Introduction 3
Part 1 American Philosophy and the Tradition
Therapists, Bootstrappers, Infantry 27
Parsing America 47
Great White Men and the Ivy League Cavalcade 66
Rorty's Revolution 126
Part 2 Abandoning Toothless Truth: Other White Males Muscle In
Persuasion and the Brows 161
Psychologists and Psychiatrist 185
The Literary Critics 208
The Political Theorists 231
Linguist, Mathematician, Neurologist 250
The Casual Wisemen 260
The Print Journalists 281
The Broadcasters 296
Part 3 The Rising Outsiders
African Americans 313
Women 344
Native Americans 443
Gays 451
Part 4 Gutenberg's Revenge: The Explosion of Cyberphilosophy
The Book Lives! 467
Cyberpolitics 478
Cyberreligion 484
Cyberliteratuxe 496
Cybercynics 512
Part 5 Isocrates: A Man, Not a Typo
Busting Isocrates 535
Isocrates's Life 538
Images and Clichés of Isocrates 541
Sophists and Sophistry 543
Rhetoricians and Rhetoric 546
Isocrates, Philosopher 549
Isocrates, Greece and America 555
Part 6 Just Saying No to Justification: The Magnificent Failure of John Rawls
Not Since John Stuart Mill 563
A Lucky Life 567
Just Another Word for Nothing Left to Argue About 575
Rawls on Justification 583
"The Theory Is Not Successful" 591
Epilogue Obama, Philosopher in Chief 596
Acknowledgments 607
Bibliography 611
Interviews 641
Index 645