id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_2ntxjmqcvfdzjibrkhnlgm47eu James Conant The concept of America 2003.0 12 .pdf application/pdf 8879 419 64 basis in America than in, say, France—that a different economy of exchange prevails between the culture at large and those who attempt to speak philosophically in it—and this affects what it can mean whose work could strike a measure of fear or embarrassment in the soul of an American man of letters at all comparable to what it would mean for a A highly literate American intellectual may well have read a great many of the classics of English, French, and German philosophy This is not to deny that many Americans participate in a shared fantasy of a common literary culture consisting of a range of widely cherished documents—to cite a few candidates: The Constitution The American philosopher Stanley Cavell remarks: Whereas a French intellectual is committed America has ever yet been realized—that the American philosopher or author or artist has ever yet been ./cache/work_2ntxjmqcvfdzjibrkhnlgm47eu.pdf ./txt/work_2ntxjmqcvfdzjibrkhnlgm47eu.txt