| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
American philosophy series |
| Contents |
Philosophical prelude: playfulness, love, and personal growth -- An inclination to listen -- Southern saunters -- Road trips: the Mason-Dixon line and beyond -- Americans on the road: Kerouac, Anderson, and Guevara -- Down on the bayou -- Taking the road less traveled by -- Tico and Okie migrants in American literature -- Sacramental awakenings in the south -- Philosophies of the heart in American literature -- Playing fútbol in La Yunai -- Churchgoing -- Finding a loving home among friends -- Dancing out of the labyrinth: from solitude to communion -- Philosophical postlude: resilient loving |
| Summary |
At once narrative and reflective, Loving Immigrants in America: An Experiential Philosophy of Personal Interaction is a philosophical account of Daniel Camposʼs experience as a Latin American immigrant to the United States of America. A series of interrelated personal essays together convey this experience of walking or sauntering, going on road trips, reading American literature in the southern United States, playing association football (soccer or fútbol), churchgoing, and Latin dancing in the U.S. This book's central motif is the caring saunterer, who is understood to be a person who makes him or herself at home anywhere, even as a Latino immigrant in the U.S. The narrative essays convey one immigrant's experience seeking an affective, social, and intellectual home in a new land. The intertwined philosophical reflections lead to the recommendation of an ethic of love—resilient love—for the day-to-day interactions and long-term relations between immigrants and hosts in this country. The author's aim is to establish an open and earnest philosophical dialogue with critical readers interested in the problems surrounding immigration in the U.S. today. He writes as an American philosopher—in the continental sense of North, Central, and South America—whose reflections provide an accessible and provocative angle for the development of insight into the experiences of immigrants in the United States. Thus he brings philosophical reflection drawn from experience, in the broad American tradition, to bear on current issues—on the problems of people and not of philosophers, as John Dewey might put it |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
Campos, Daniel (Central American Immigrant)
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| SUBJECT |
Campos, Daniel (Central American Immigrant) fast (OCoLC)fst01990626 |
| Subject |
Philosophy, American -- 20th century.
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Philosophy, American -- 21st century.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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Civilization.
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Emigration and immigration.
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Philosophy, American.
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Civilization -- 20th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139942
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United States -- Civilization -- 21st century
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United States -- Emigration and immigration.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140040
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| Subject |
United States.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2017032381 |
| ISBN |
9781498547857 |
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1498547850 |
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