American philosophy: a love story

Prologue : Maybe

Part I. Hell

In a dark wood, a library

Finding West Wind

"Pestilence-stricken multitudes"

Fraud and self-reliance

Walden and frozen lakes

Part II. Purgatory

The task of salvation

Divine madness

On the mountain

The will to believe

Evolutionary love

Part III. Redemption

A philosophy of loyalty

On the steps

Women in the attic

I knew a phoenix

East Wind

The mystery of being

Epilogue : The cult of the dead.