Introduction to American "New Realism" Philosophy

This book explores the philosophical movement of New Realism, which emerged in the early 20th century as a reaction against idealism and subjectivism, and which sought to reassert the objective existence of reality and the directness of perception. Central figures of New Realism—such as Ralph Barton Perry, Edwin B. Holt, William Pepperell Montague, and Edward Gleason Spaulding—contributed to a systematic philosophical framework that defended the possibility of knowing the world as it truly ...