The essays in Pragmatist and American Philosophical Perspectives on Resilience offer a survey of the ways that "resilience" is becoming a key concept for understanding our world, as well as providing deeper insight about its specific actual and proposed applications. From climate change preparedness to mental health, resilience has recently emerged as a central focus of a variety of disciplines grounded in theoretical approaches as disparate as environmental philosophy, psychology, safety engineering, political science, and urban planning. As an emerging concept with multiple theoretical and practical meanings, "resilience" promises considerable explanatory power. At the same time, current uses of the concept can be diverse and at times inconsistent. The American philosophical tradition provides tools uniquely suited for clarifying, extending, and applying emerging concepts in more effective and suggestive ways. From cultural figures such as Benjamin Franklin and Wendell Berry to philosophers such as Jane Addams and William James, this collection explores the usefulness of theoretical work in American philosophy and pragmatism to practices in ecology, community, rurality, and psychology.
Contents Introduction: Resilience as a Philosophical Concept Kelly A. Parker Part I. Pragmatist Conceptions of Resilience 1. Resilience as Wisdom: A Metaphysical Groundwork Paul Benjamin Cherlin 2. Integrating Facts and Values in Explanations of Social-Ecological Resilience Zachary Piso 3. Catastrophe and the Beloved Community: Resources for Resilience in Josiah Royce and Martin Luther King, Jr. Kelly A. Parker and Daniel J. Brunson 4. Frugality and Resilience: A Pragmatist Meditation William M. Throop 5. Resilience Thinking and the Moral Imagination Raymond J. Davidson Jr. 6. 'What Anything Is for': Resilience-as-Pragmatism in Aldo Leopold's 'Living Democracy' and Vandana Shiva's 'Earth Democracy' John Hausdoerffer Part II. Developing Capacities for Resilience 7. Toward a Resilient Localism Jessica Hejny 8. Humanities as a Source of Resilience in Jane Addams's Community Activism Judy D. Whipps 9. Pedagogies for Resilience: Intergroup Dialogue, Design Thinking, and the Integral Approach Danielle Lake 10. Habits of Resilience: Positive Psychology and the Philosophy of William James Heather E. Keith and Kenneth D. Keith Part III. Practical Applications and Case Studies 11. Resilience as a Systems Concept, with an Application to the American West Paul B. Thompson and Jared L. Talley 12. Justice and Agrarianism in Resilient Food Systems Tatiana Abatemarco 13. Crafting Rural Resilience Joanna Wozniak-Brown
