ISBN:
0203901355
,
0415930294
,
0415930308
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xi, 232 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Pragmatism, Feminism and Democracy : Rethinking the Politics of American History
DDC:
306.0973
Keywords:
Pragmatism History
;
Capitalism History
;
Progressivism (United States politics) History
;
Feminism History
;
Socialism History
;
Socialism
;
Electronic books
;
United States Politics and government 1865-1933
;
United States Historiography
;
United States Intellectual life 1865-1918
Abstract:
At the turn of the century, new intellectual and cultural currents came together to reorient society. By drawing new connections between these developments, Livingston recasts discussion of the coming of modernity
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Pragmatism, Feminism, and Democracy; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Attitudes Toward History; Part 1. Pragmatism, Feminism, and the Politics of Historiography; 1. Modern Subjectivity and Consumer Culture: The Revenge of the New Woman; The Terms of Debate; Primal Scenes in American Historiography; Epistemology of Excess; 2. Fighting the "War of Position": The Politics of Pragmatism; Pragmatism as a Comic "Frame of Acceptance"; Cultural Criticism and Corporate Capitalism; Corporate Capitalism and Cultural Politics
Description / Table of Contents:
3. The Strange Career of the "Social Self"From Royce to Wahl to Kojève; Jane Addams, Jessie Taft, and the "Social Claim"; Dewey and the Self's Determination; 4. Narrative Politics: Richard Rorty at the "End of Reform"; Marxism or Pragmatism?; Real or Cultural Politics?; Tragedy or Comedy?; Appendix: Memo to the Cultural Left, or, How to Be "Critical of 'the System' and Crazy about the Country"; Part 2. Escaping the "Economy of Heaven": William James at the Edges of Our Differences; 5. Hamlet, James, and the Woman Question; Reinstating the Vague; Father and Son; Difference and Equality
Description / Table of Contents:
The Worst Kind of Melancholy6. Unstiffening Our Theories: Pragmatism, Feminism, and the End(s) of Capitalism; The Gender of Modernity; Nietzsche, Butler, James; Marxism in Green, Feminism in Red, Populism in Drag; Corporate Personality, Bureaucratic Rationality, and Modern Feminism; Afterword: No Exit; Notes; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-223) and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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