Frontiers of Consciousness: Interdiscilipinary Studies in American Philosophy and Poetry

In this text, Scott examines the work of three modernist poets - T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams - and a group of philosophers called the Builders. He provides an interdisciplinary study of how the classical American philosophy of the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century by Royce, James and Dewey (and, indirectly, by Pierce), and American modernist poetry by Eliot, Stevens and Williams, contributed to overcoming the modernist paradigm of consciousness and articulating the postmodern paradigm. The studies should be of interest to students of philosophy and theory of literature and to anyone interested in the topics analysed by Scott.