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A History of Philosophy in America, 1720-2000 (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)

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It may surprise readers to learn that Bruce Kuklick’s A History of Philosophy in America is intended to be a textbook. Attempting to “steer between the Scylla of philosophers’ suspicion of history and the Charybdis of historians’ suspicion of philosophers,” Kuklick provides a survey of the development of American thought, a movement he believes demonstrates “the long circuitous march from a religious to a secular vision of the universe.”

Kuklick is particularly well qualified to write such a study. The author of more than a half-dozen books on an array of...

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