Livingston Pragmatism, Feminism, and Democracy

Rethinking the Politics of American History
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-135-95573-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 244 Seiten

Pragmatism, Feminism, and Democracy is James Livingston's virtuoso reflection on the period between 1890 and 1930, a primal scene of American history during which a wave of intellectual currents came together--and fell apart--to reorient society. Tying in critical insights on corporate capitalism, consumer culture, populism, and the American Left, Livingston analyzes the intersections and similarities of pragmatism and feminism to yield an original, provocative blend of historiography, feminist theory, and American intellectual history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Livingston, James

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Introduction: Attitudes Toward History

Part 1. Pragmatism, Feminism, and the Politics of Historiography

Chapter 1. Modern Subjectivity and Consumer Culture: The Revenge of New Women
The Terms of the Debate
Primal Scenes in American Historiography
Epistemology of Excess

Chapter 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

Chapter 3. The Strange Career of "Social Self"
From Royce to Wahl to Kojeve
Jane Addams, Jessie Taft, and the "Social Claim"
John Dewey on the Self's Determination

Chapter 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

Chapter 5. Hamlet, James, and the Woman Question
Reinstating the Vague
Father and Son
Difference and Equality
The Worst Kind of Melancholy

Chapter 6. Understanding 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
Index

Über Autor(innen)

James Livingston is a Professor of History at Rutgers University. He is the author of Pragmatism and the Political Economy of Cultural Revolution and Origins of the Federal Reserve System: Money, Class, and Corporate Capitalism.