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A concise and practical manual on developing reading, writing, and critical thinking skills in tandem For college students learning how to write on scholarly subjects, writing and critical thinking go hand in hand. And yet most books on these topics are categorized separately: writing guides and critical thinking handbooks. This book is different, offering a manual for developing reading, writing, and thinking skills in tandem. With short, pra...

A concise and practical manual on developing reading, writing, and critical thinking skills in tandem For college students learning how to write on scholarly subjects, writing and critical thinking go hand in hand. And yet most books on these topics are categorized separately: writing guides and critical thinking handbooks. This book is different, offering a manual for developing reading, writing, and thinking skills in tandem. With short, pra...

What Thoreau can teach us about working--why we do it, what it does to us, and how we can make it more meaningfulHenry at Work invites readers to rethink how we work today by exploring an aspect of Henry David Thoreau that has often been overlooked: Thoreau the worker. John Kaag and Jonathan van Belle overturn the popular misconception of Thoreau as a navel-gazing recluse who was scornful of work and other mundanities. In fact, Thoreau worked ...

A history of a family spanning centuries and continents--one that unfolds into a new portrait of America.The Bloods were one of America's first and most expansive pioneer families. They explored and laid claim to the frontiers--geographic, political, intellectual, and spiritual--that would become the very core of the United States. John Kaag's American Bloods is the account of a remarkable American family, of its participation in the making of...

In this book, John Kaag and Jonathan van Belle illuminate an underexplored aspect of worked-over cultural icon Henry David Thoreau and what his thinking has to tell us about the way we work now. Henry at Work overturns the popular perception of Thoreau as a navel-gazing recluse, scornful of work and other mundanities. Just the opposite, they argue, Thoreau worked hard and thought intensely about work: why we do it, what we hope to gain from it...

¿This is a splendid contribution, not to be ignored by cognitive scientists, scholars of American philosophy, and philosophers and critics interested in imagination.¿¿Robert Neville, Boston University ¿Kaag effectively exposes the Kantian roots of pragmatism, especially the link between Kant and Peirce. Against that background he articulates a pragmatic theory of the imagination that underscores its character both as fully embodied and as vi...

»Kaag verwebt seine philosophischen Anliegen geschickt mit den kleinen und großen Krisen des täglichen Lebens... seine Ehrlichkeit macht Mut.« - The Wall Street Journal»Wandern mit Nietzsche« ist die Geschichte zweiter philosophischer Reisen, die John Kaag unternommen hat. Die eine als junger Mann von neunzehn Jahren, die andere siebzehn Jahre danach - unter gänzlich verschiedenen Umständen. Nun ist er Ehemann und Vater, und seine Frau und sei...

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In 1895, William James, the father of American philosophy, delivered a lecture entitled "Is Life Worth Living?? It was no theoretical question for James, who had contemplated suicide during an existential crisis as a young man a quarter century earlier. Indeed, as John Kaag writes, "James's entire philosophy, from beginning to end, was geared to save a life, his life??and that's why it just might be able to save yours, too. Sick Souls, Healthy...

In 1895, William James, the father of American philosophy, delivered a lecture entitled "Is Life Worth Living?" It was no theoretical question for James, who had contemplated suicide during an existential crisis as a young man a quarter century earlier. Indeed, as John Kaag writes, "James's entire philosophy, from beginning to end, was geared to save a life, his life"--and that's why it just might be able to save yours, too. Sick Souls, Health...

Hiking with Nietzsche is a tale of two philosophical journeys in the Swiss Alps: one made by John Kaag as an introspective teenager, the other seventeen years later in radically different circumstances - as a husband and father with his wife and small child in tow.Kaag travels to the peaks above Sils Maria where Nietzsche routinely summered, and where he wrote his mysterious landmark work, Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Both trips are made in search ...

»Dieses Buch kann Ihr Leben verändern!«, Wall Street Journal.Als der junge Philosophieprofessor John Kaag im Hinterland von New Hampshire die vergessene Bibliothek von William Ernest Hocking, einem der letzten großen amerikanischen Denker entdeckt, traut er seinen Augen kaum. Unter den halb verfallenen und vermoderten Bänden findet er zahlreiche Schätze: handgeschriebene Notizen von Walt Whitman, annotierte Bücher aus dem Besitz von Robert Fro...

A stimulating book about combating despair and complacency with searching reflection." --Heller McAlpin, NPR.org Named a Best Book of 2018 by NPR. One of Lit Hub's 15 Books You Should Read in September and one of Outside's Best Books of FallA revelatory Alpine journey in the spirit of the great Romantic thinker Friedrich NietzscheHiking with Nietzsche: Becoming Who You Are is a tale of two philosophical journeys-one made by John Kaag as an int...

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HIKING WITH NIETZSCHE is an entertaining, intimate exploration not only of Nietzsche's ideals but of how his philosophy relates to us in the twenty-first century. It is about defeating complacency, balancing sanity and madness and coming to grips with the unobtainable. It speaks to our different stages of life.

A revelatory Alpine journey in the spirit of the great Romantic thinker Friedrich Nietzsche.

The epic wisdom contained in a lost library helps the author turn his life aroundJohn Kaag is a dispirited young philosopher at sea in his marriage and his career when he stumbles upon West Wind, a ruin of an estate in the hinterlands of New Hampshire that belonged to the eminent Harvard philosopher William Ernest Hocking. Hocking was one of the last true giants of American philosophy and a direct intellectual descendent of William James, the ...

One of the most significant and controversial developments in contemporary warfare is the use of unmanned aerial vehicles, commonly referred to as drones. In the last decade, US drone strikes have more than doubled and their deployment is transforming the way wars are fought across the globe. But how did drones claim such an important role in modern military planning? And how are they changing military strategy and the ethics of war and peace?...