Reviews
"In The American Intellectual Tradition, 4/e , Hollinger and Capper have critically considered a 'family of disagreements' in American social and political thought. The result is yet another probing volume of sources that illustrates links between ideas, culture, and major trends in American society. Selections from the work of Richard Rorty, Lillian Smith, Randolph Bourne, Sarah Grimké, and others set the stage for continuing debate about the dynamic and static nature of American social and intellectual life. The authors judiciously suggest other voices who come to different conclusions about the questions considered."--William Banks, University of California, Berkeley"This sourcebook continues to serve as the cornerstone of my teaching in American thought for undergraduates and graduate students alike. The American Intellectual Tradition provides a comprehensive survey ranging from the Puritan theology to postmodern critical theory. The fourth edition includes updated versions of Hollinger and Capper's superb critical commentaries and comprehensive bibliographies, essays as valuable for specialists trying to keep track of new work in cultural history as for students seeking guidance as they embark on the historical study of ideas."--James T. Kloppenberg, Harvard University, "InThe American Intellectual Tradition, 4/e, Hollinger and Capper have critically considered a 'family of disagreements' in American social and political thought. The result is yet another probing volume of sources that illustrates links between ideas, culture, and major trends in American society. Selections from the work of Richard Rorty, Lillian Smith, Randolph Bourne, Sarah Grimk , and others set the stage for continuing debate about the dynamic and static nature of American social and intellectual life. The authors judiciously suggest other voices who come to different conclusions about the questions considered."--William Banks,University of California, Berkeley "This sourcebook continues to serve as the cornerstone of my teaching in American thought for undergraduates and graduate students alike.The American Intellectual Traditionprovides a comprehensive survey ranging from the Puritan theology to postmodern critical theory. The fourth edition includes updated versions of Hollinger and Capper's superb critical commentaries and comprehensive bibliographies, essays as valuable for specialists trying to keep track of new work in cultural history as for students seeking guidance as they embark on the historical study of ideas."--James T. Kloppenberg,Harvard University, "In The American Intellectual Tradition, 4/e, Hollinger and Capper have critically considered a 'family of disagreements' in American social and political thought. The result is yet another probing volume of sources that illustrates links between ideas, culture, and major trends in Americansociety. Selections from the work of Richard Rorty, Lillian Smith, Randolph Bourne, Sarah Grimke, and others set the stage for continuing debate about the dynamic and static nature of American social and intellectual life. The authors judiciously suggest other voices who come to differentconclusions about the questions considered."--William Banks, University of California, Berkeley, "In The American Intellectual Tradition, 4/e , Hollinger and Capper have critically considered a 'family of disagreements' in American social and political thought. The result is yet another probing volume of sources that illustrates links between ideas, culture, and major trends in American society. Selections from the work of Richard Rorty, Lillian Smith, Randolph Bourne, Sarah Grimké, and others set the stage for continuing debate about the dynamic and static nature of American social and intellectual life. The authors judiciously suggest other voices who come to different conclusions about the questions considered."--William Banks, University of California, Berkeley "This sourcebook continues to serve as the cornerstone of my teaching in American thought for undergraduates and graduate students alike. The American Intellectual Tradition provides a comprehensive survey ranging from the Puritan theology to postmodern critical theory. The fourth edition includes updated versions of Hollinger and Capper's superb critical commentaries and comprehensive bibliographies, essays as valuable for specialists trying to keep track of new work in cultural history as for students seeking guidance as they embark on the historical study of ideas."--James T. Kloppenberg, Harvard University, "In The American Intellectual Tradition, 4/e, Hollinger and Capper have critically considered a 'family of disagreements' in American social and political thought. The result is yet another probing volume of sources that illustrates links between ideas, culture, and major trends in American society. Selections from the work of Richard Rorty, Lillian Smith, Randolph Bourne, Sarah Grimké, and others set the stage for continuing debate about the dynamic and static nature of American social and intellectual life. The authors judiciously suggest other voices who come to different conclusions about the questions considered."--William Banks, University of California, Berkeley "This sourcebook continues to serve as the cornerstone of my teaching in American thought for undergraduates and graduate students alike. The American Intellectual Tradition provides a comprehensive survey ranging from the Puritan theology to postmodern critical theory. The fourth edition includes updated versions of Hollinger and Capper's superb critical commentaries and comprehensive bibliographies, essays as valuable for specialists trying to keep track of new work in cultural history as for students seeking guidance as they embark on the historical study of ideas."--James T. Kloppenberg, Harvard University, "In The American Intellectual Tradition, 4/e, Hollinger and Capper have critically considered a 'family of disagreements' in American social and political thought. The result is yet another probing volume of sources that illustrates links between ideas, culture, and major trends in American society. Selections from the work of Richard Rorty, Lillian Smith, Randolph Bourne, Sarah Grimk, and others set the stage for continuing debate about the dynamic and static nature of American social and intellectual life. The authors judiciously suggest other voices who come to different conclusions about the questions considered."--William Banks, University of California, Berkeley "This sourcebook continues to serve as the cornerstone of my teaching in American thought for undergraduates and graduate students alike. The American Intellectual Tradition provides a comprehensive survey ranging from the Puritan theology to postmodern critical theory. The fourth edition includes updated versions of Hollinger and Capper's superb critical commentaries and comprehensive bibliographies, essays as valuable for specialists trying to keep track of new work in cultural history as for students seeking guidance as they embark on the historical study of ideas."--James T. Kloppenberg, Harvard University, "In The American Intellectual Tradition, 4/e, Hollinger and Capper have critically considered a 'family of disagreements' in American social and political thought. The result is yet another probing volume of sources that illustrates links between ideas, culture, and major trends in American society. Selections from the work of Richard Rorty, Lillian Smith, Randolph Bourne, Sarah Grimké, and others set the stage for continuing debate about the dynamic and static nature of American social and intellectual life. The authors judiciously suggest other voices who come to different conclusions about the questions considered."--William Banks, University of California, Berkeley"This sourcebook continues to serve as the cornerstone of my teaching in American thought for undergraduates and graduate students alike. The American Intellectual Tradition provides a comprehensive survey ranging from the Puritan theology to postmodern critical theory. The fourth edition includes updated versions of Hollinger and Capper's superb critical commentaries and comprehensive bibliographies, essays as valuable for specialists trying to keep track of new work in cultural history as for students seeking guidance as they embark on the historical study of ideas."--James T. Kloppenberg, Harvard University, "This sourcebook continues to serve as the cornerstone of my teaching in American thought for undergraduates and graduate students alike. The American Intellectual Tradition provides a comprehensive survey ranging from the Puritan theology to postmodern critical theory. The fourth editionincludes updated versions of Hollinger and Capper's superb critical commentaries and comprehensive bibliographies, essays as valuable for specialists trying to keep track of new work in cultural history as for students seeking guidance as they embark on the historical study of ideas."--James T.Kloppenberg, Harvard University, "In The American Intellectual Tradition, 4/e, Hollinger and Capper havecritically considered a 'family of disagreements' in American social andpolitical thought. The result is yet another probing volume of sources thatillustrates links between ideas, culture, and major trends in American society.Selections from the work of Richard Rorty, Lillian Smith, Randolph Bourne, SarahGrimke, and others set the stage for continuing debate about the dynamic andstatic nature of American social and intellectual life. The authors judiciouslysuggest other voices who come to different conclusions about the questionsconsidered."--William Banks, University of California, Berkeley, "In The American Intellectual Tradition, 4/e, Hollinger and Capper have critically considered a 'family of disagreements' in American social and political thought. The result is yet another probing volume of sources that illustrates links between ideas, culture, and major trends in American society. Selections from the work of Richard Rorty, Lillian Smith, Randolph Bourne, Sarah Grimke, and others set the stage for continuing debate about the dynamic and static nature of American social and intellectual life. The authors judiciously suggest other voices who come to different conclusions about the questions considered."--William Banks, University of California, Berkeley "This sourcebook continues to serve as the cornerstone of my teaching in American thought for undergraduates and graduate students alike. The American Intellectual Tradition provides a comprehensive survey ranging from the Puritan theology to postmodern critical theory. The fourth edition includes updated versions of Hollinger and Capper's superb critical commentaries and comprehensive bibliographies, essays as valuable for specialists trying to keep track of new work in cultural history as for students seeking guidance as they embark on the historical study of ideas."--James T. Kloppenberg, Harvard University, "This sourcebook continues to serve as the cornerstone of my teaching inAmerican thought for undergraduates and graduate students alike. The AmericanIntellectual Tradition provides a comprehensive survey ranging from the Puritantheology to postmodern critical theory. The fourth edition includes updatedversions of Hollinger and Capper's superb critical commentaries andcomprehensive bibliographies, essays as valuable for specialists trying to keeptrack of new work in cultural history as for students seeking guidance as theyembark on the historical study of ideas."--James T. Kloppenberg, HarvardUniversity, "InThe American Intellectual Tradition, 4/e, Hollinger and Capper have critically considered a 'family of disagreements' in American social and political thought. The result is yet another probing volume of sources that illustrates links between ideas, culture, and major trends in American society. Selections from the work of Richard Rorty, Lillian Smith, Randolph Bourne, Sarah Grimké, and others set the stage for continuing debate about the dynamic and static nature of American social and intellectual life. The authors judiciously suggest other voices who come to different conclusions about the questions considered."--William Banks,University of California, Berkeley "This sourcebook continues to serve as the cornerstone of my teaching in American thought for undergraduates and graduate students alike.The American Intellectual Traditionprovides a comprehensive survey ranging from the Puritan theology to postmodern critical theory. The fourth edition includes updated versions of Hollinger and Capper's superb critical commentaries and comprehensive bibliographies, essays as valuable for specialists trying to keep track of new work in cultural history as for students seeking guidance as they embark on the historical study of ideas."--James T. Kloppenberg,Harvard University
Table of Content
PrefacePart One: Toward a Secular CultureIntroductionCharles Peirce, "The Fixation of Belief" (1877)William Dean Howells, "Pernicious Fiction" (1887)William Graham Sumner, "Sociology" (1881)Lester Frank Ward, "Mind as a Social Factor" (1884)Elizabeth Cady Stanton, "The Solitude of Self" (1892)Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Selection from Women and Economics (1898)Josiah Royce, "The Problem of Job" (1898)William James, "The Will to Believe" (1897)Henry Adams, "The Dynamo and the Virgin" (1907)Frederick Jackson Turner, "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" (1893)George Santayana, "The Genteel Tradition in American Philosophy" (1913)Part Two: Social Progress and the Power of the IntellectIntroductionWilliam James, "What Pragmatism Means" (1907)Woodrow Wilson, "The Ideals of America" (1902)Jane Adams, "The Subjective Necessity of Social Settlements" (1892)Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., "Natural Law" (1918)Thorstein Veblen, Selection from The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899)W.E.B. DuBois, "Our Spiritual Strivings" (1903)John Dewey, Philosophy and Democracy (1918)Randolph Bourne, "Trans-National America" (1916), "Twilight of Idols" (1917)H.L. Mencken, "Puritanism as a Literary Force" (1919)Margaret Mead, Selection from Coming of Age in Samoa (1928)John Crowe Ransom, "Reconstructed but Unregenerate" (1930)Sidney Hook, "Communism Without Dogmas" (1934)Part Three: To Extend Democracy and to Formulate the ModernIntroductionClement Greenberg, "Avant-Garde and Kitsch" (1939)David Lilienthal, Selection from T.V.A.: Democracy on the March (1944)Gunnar Myrdal, Selection from An American DilemmaReinhold Niebuhr, Selection from The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness (1944)Lillian Smith, Selection from Killers of the Dream (1949)Whittaker Chambers, Selection from Witness (1952)Hannah Arendt, "Ideology and Terror" (1953)Erik H. Erikson, Selection from Childhood and Society (1950)John Courtney Murray, Selection from We Hold These Truths (1960)Lionel Trilling, "On the Teaching of Modern Literature" (1961)Daniel Bell, "The End of Ideology in the West" (1960)W.W. Rostow, Selection from The Stages of Economic Growth (1960)C. Wright Mills, "Letter to the New Left" (1960)Part Four: Exploring Diversity and PostmodernityIntroductionThomas S. Kuhn, Selection from The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962)Martin Luther King, Jr., "Selection from "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" (1963)Betty Friedan, Selection from The Feminine Mystique (1963)Susan Sontag, "Against Interpretation" (1964)Malcolm X, Selection from "The Ballot or the Bullet" (1964)Noam Chomsky, "The Responsibilities of Intellectuals" (1967)Samuel Huntington, Selection from "The Democratic Distemper" (1975)Ralph Ellison, "The Little Man at Chehaw Station" (1977)Nancy Chodorow, "Gender, Relation, and Difference in Psychoanalytic Perspective" (1979)Richard Rorty, "Science as Solidarity" (1986)Judith Butler, Selection from Gender Trouble (1990)Kwame Anthony Appiah, Selection from "In My Father's House (1992)Chronologies
