Abstract

America the Philosophical is a slyly funny book, and one that hints at how the last few decades of being a philosopher might have been more interesting. Through its many sub-themes, we are introduced to a philosophical interpretation of America that widens our sense of both philosophy and the meaning of the American experience. All in all, Romano offers us a magnificent, idiosyncratic, disjointed feast, only parts of which I can consider in my own personal response that follows. From one point of view, philosophers are people who find experience intellectually puzzling and try, by thinking on their own and in cooperation with like-minded others, to untangle these puzzles. In this sense, it is surely...