This book is a comprehensive overview of the history of modern American thought and examines a wide range of modern thought and thinkers from 1860, when Charles Darwinâ s Origin of Species was published in the United States, to the end of the twentieth century.
This book is a comprehensive overview of the history of modern American thought and examines a wide range of modern thought and thinkers from 1860, when Charles Darwinâ s Origin of Species was published in the United States, to the end of the twentieth century.
Daniel Wickberg has taught intellectual history at the University of Texas at Dallas for over 25 years. His primary areas of research are the history of American social thought and historiography. He is the author of The Senses of Humor: Self and Laughter in Modern America (1998).
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PART I: AMERICAN MODERNISMS: 1865-1919 1. DARWINISM AND THE EVOLUTIONARY SENSIBILITY 2. PRAGMATISM AND ANTIFOUNDATIONAL THOUGHT 3. THE RESEARCH UNIVERSITY, THE IDEA OF CULTURE, AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES 4. PROGRESSIVISMS 5. RETHINKING WOMAN AND MAN PART II: THE CONTRADICTIONS OF THE DEMOCRATIC IMAGINATION: 1920-1962 6. CULTURAL RELATIVISMS AND MODERN HIERARCHIES 7. SCIENCE AS CULTURE: THE MORAL ORDER OF MODERNITY 8. FROM PROTESTANT HEGEMONY TO RELIGIOUS PLURALISM 9. PLURALISM AND COSMOPOLITANISM 10. SELF AND SOCIAL ORDER IN THE COLD WAR WORLD PART III: RETHINKING MODERNISM: 1963-2000 11. CULTURAL REVOLUTIONS AND RUPTURES 12. THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF EVERYTHING 13. THE RETURN OF NATURE 14. GENDER AND SEXUALITY 15. CULTURE WARS
PART I: AMERICAN MODERNISMS: 1865-1919 1. DARWINISM AND THE EVOLUTIONARY SENSIBILITY 2. PRAGMATISM AND ANTIFOUNDATIONAL THOUGHT 3. THE RESEARCH UNIVERSITY, THE IDEA OF CULTURE, AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES 4. PROGRESSIVISMS 5. RETHINKING WOMAN AND MAN PART II: THE CONTRADICTIONS OF THE DEMOCRATIC IMAGINATION: 1920-1962 6. CULTURAL RELATIVISMS AND MODERN HIERARCHIES 7. SCIENCE AS CULTURE: THE MORAL ORDER OF MODERNITY 8. FROM PROTESTANT HEGEMONY TO RELIGIOUS PLURALISM 9. PLURALISM AND COSMOPOLITANISM 10. SELF AND SOCIAL ORDER IN THE COLD WAR WORLD PART III: RETHINKING MODERNISM: 1963-2000 11. CULTURAL REVOLUTIONS AND RUPTURES 12. THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF EVERYTHING 13. THE RETURN OF NATURE 14. GENDER AND SEXUALITY 15. CULTURE WARS
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