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More scholarly works on the history of American philosophy have been completed in Russian than in any other language outside of our own; yet most of that body of work has not been translated or studied comprehensively. Consequently, Soviet-era efforts to understand American thought have remained almost entirely unknown to Western scholars.

In his pioneering new book Interpreting America John Ryder makes available for the first time to English-speaking readers Russian views of the full range of American philosophical thought: from seventeenth-century Puritanism through the colonial and revolutionary periods, nineteenth- century idealism, pragmatism, naturalism, and other twentieth-century movements and figures. Using his own accurate translations, he clearly reconstructs a chain of core ideas, emphasizes the most essential concepts of each writer's work, and gives a multidimensional reconstruction of the arguments of each author.

By taking mainstream Soviet philosophical commentators like Baskin, Bogomolov, Karimsky, Melvil, Pokrovsky, Sidorov, and Yulina seriously and letting them speak for themselves, Ryder shows not only what Soviet philosophers and scholars thought of American philosophy (and why they were so interested in the first place) but also the nuances of the internal disagreements among Soviet thinkers about what American philosophers were saying. He also reveals a strong continuity between contemporary, post-Soviet Russian philosophy and earlier Soviet work.

Perhaps no other book has ever explored in such a systematic manner the ways in which one philosophical system has regarded another. Ryder's revealing study of how others have viewed us helps to clarify the depth, richness, and complexity of our own American philosophical heritage.

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Soviet studies of the history of American philosophy tended to focus on philosophic trends and schools of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, on what is sometimes referred to as the "Golden Age" of American philosophy.

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  • Title Interpreting America: Russian and Soviet Studies of the History of American Thought
  • Author John Ryder
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition 1st
  • Pages 416
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Vanderbilt University Press, Nashville, TN, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 1999-10-31
  • Features Dust Cover
  • ISBN 9780826513342 / 0826513344
  • Weight 1.36 lbs (0.62 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.61 x 6.53 x 1.05 in (24.41 x 16.59 x 2.67 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Modern
    • Cultural Region: Russian
  • Category Philosophy
  • Library of Congress subjects Philosophy, American - History
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 98-58118
  • Dewey Decimal Code 191

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