Title Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Prelude -- Prescript -- Part 1: An American Angle of Vision -- Chapter 1: Threadbare Crape -- Chapter 2: An American Angle of Vision, Part 1 -- Chapter 3: An American Angle of Vision, Part 2 -- Chapter 4: Spires of Influence -- Chapter 5: Josiah Royce's Philosophy of the Community -- Chapter 6: Possibility or Else! -- Part 2: Environing -- Chapter 7: A Relational World -- Chapter 8: Nature and Nostalgia and the City -- Chapter 9: Space, Time, and Touch -- Chapter 10: Glass Without Feet -- Part 3: Turning -- Chapter 11: Why Bother -- Chapter 12: Ill-At-Ease -- Chapter 13: "Turning" Backward -- Chapter 14: The Inevitability of our O wn Death -- Chapter 15: Isolation as Starvation -- Part 4: Bequeathing -- Chapter 16: Hast Any Philosophy in THee, Shepherd? -- Chapter 17: The Cultural Immortality of Philosophy as Human Drama -- Chapter 18: To be Hunman is to Humanize -- Chapter 19: Experience Grows by its Edges -- Chapter 20: The Aesthetic Drama of the Ordinary -- Part 5: Teaching -- Chapter 21: The Gamble for Excellence -- Chapter 22: Liberty and Order in the Educational Anthropology of Maria Montessori -- Chapter 23: The Erosion of Face-To-Face Pedagogy -- Chapter 24: Cultural Literacy -- Chapter 25: Trumping Cynicism with Imagination -- Finis -- Notes -- Index -- American Philosophy Series.