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Hiking with Nietzsche is a tale of two philosophical journeys - one made by John Kaag as an introspective young man of 19, the other 17 years later and in quite different circumstances: as a husband and father. Both journeys are made in search of the wisdom at the core of Nietzsche's philosophy, but they deliver him to radically different interpretations and, more crucially, revelations about.
John Kaag is a professor of philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, a Miller Scholar at the Santa Fe Institute and the author of Sick Souls, Healthy Minds: How William James Can Save Your Life (2020).He lives outside Boston.
John Kaag is a professor of philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. He is the author of American Philosophy: A Love Story, which was an NPR Best Book of 2016 and a New York Times Editors’ Choice. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Harper’s Magazine, The Christian Science Monitor, and many other publications.He lives near Boston with his wife and daughter.
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Sick Souls, Healthy Minds: How William James Can Save Your Life John Kaag From the celebrated author of American Philosophy: A Love Story and Hiking with Nietzsche, a compelling introduction to the life-affirming philosophy of William James In 1895, William James, the father of American philosophy.
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American Philosophy Quotes Showing 1-11 of 11 “Over time, I came to realize that this was the point of reading Emerson and, for that matter, Thoreau and Margaret Fuller and all the rest of them. The reason to read the American Transcendentalists wasn’t to hang on to their every word, but to be inspired by them.