The Worlds of American Intellectual History

The Worlds of American Intellectual History follows American thinkers and their ideas as they have crossed national, institutional, and intellectual boundaries. The volume explores ways in which American ideas have circulated in different cultures. It also examines the multiple sites--from social mo...

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Main Authors Isaac, Joel, Kloppenberg, James T, O'Brien, Michael, Ratner-Rosenhagen, Jennifer
Format eBook Book
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford Oxford University Press, Incorporated 2016
Edition1
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover -- The Worlds of American Intellectual History -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction: Opening American Thought -- Part I Frames -- 1. What Was the American Enlightenment? -- 2. The "Woman Question" in the Age of Democracy: From Movement History to Problem History -- 3. "We the People of Color": Colored Cosmopolitanism and the Borders of Race -- 4. Curating the Black Atlantic -- Part II Justice -- 5. The Sins of Slaves and the Slaves of Sin: Toward a History of Moral Agency -- 6. Nationalism and Cosmopolitan Humanity in Mid-​Nineteenth-​Century American Political Science -- 7. The Political Origins of Global Justice -- Part III Philosophy -- 8. Unstiffening Theory: The Italian Magic Pragmatists and William James -- 9. The Longing for Wisdom in Twentieth-​Century US Thought -- 10. Pain, Analytical Philosophy, and American Intellectual History -- 11. On Lying: Writing Philosophical History after the Enlightenment and after Arendt -- Part IV Secularization -- 12. Science and Religion in Postwar America -- 13. Religion within the Bounds of Democracy Alone: Habermas, Rawls, and the Transatlantic Debate over Public Reason -- 14. Christianity and Its American Fate: Where History Interrogates Secularization Theory -- Part V Method -- 15. Paths in the Social History of Ideas -- 16. Toward a Free-​Range Intellectual History -- 17. New Directions, Then and Now -- afterword -- contributors -- index