The American Intellectual Tradition Volume II: 1865 to the Present

by Hollinger, David A.; Capper, Charles

• ISBN13: 9780195183405
• ISBN10: 0195183401
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-10-20
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Revised and updated, the fifth edition of this now standard two-volume anthology brings together some of the most historically significant writings in American intellectual history. Uniquely comprehensive, The American Intellectual Tradition includes classic works in philosophy, religion,social theory, political thought, economics, psychology, and cultural and literary criticism. Organized chronologically into thematic sections, the two volumes trace the evolution of intellectual writing and thinking from its origins in Puritan beliefs to the most recent essays on diversity andpostmodernity. Pedagogical features include introductions and headnotes to the selections, updated bibliographic material throughout, and detailed chronologies at the end of each book. Addressing such highly contested subjects as race, class, gender, aesthetics, political religion, and the role ofthe United States in the world, The American Intellectual Tradition, Fifth Edition, is invaluable for undergraduate courses in intellectual history. It is also an excellent supplement for graduate seminars and classes in American history, American studies, and American literature. Volumes I and II now offer new selections from Roger Williams, John Humphrey Noyes, Asa Gray, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Charles Augustus Briggs, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Walter Lippmann, Thurman Arnold, Henry Luce, Henry A. Wallace, Albert Einstein, Aldo Leopold, James Baldwin, George Kennan,Milton Friedman, Herbert Marcuse, Edward Said, Gloria Anzaldua, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Joan W. Scott, Samuel Huntington, and Carl Sagan.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Part One: Toward a Secular Culture
Introduction	3	(2)
Asa Gray	5	(6)
Selection from ``Review of Darwin's On the Origin of Species'' (1860)	6	(5)
Thomas Wentworth Higginson	11	(4)
Selection from ``A Plea for Culture'' (1867)	12	(3)
Charles Peirce	15	(11)
``The Fixation of Belief'' (1877)	16	(10)
William Graham Sumner	26	(10)
``Sociology'' (1881)	27	(9)
Charles Augustus Briggs	36	(5)
Selection from Biblical Study (1883)	37	(4)
William Dean Howells	41	(4)
``Pernicious Fiction'' (1887)	42	(3)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton	45	(9)
``The Solitude of Self'' (1892)	46	(4)
Selection from The Woman's Bible (1895)	50	(4)
Frederick Jackson Turner	54	(9)
``The Significance of the Frontier in American History'' (1893)	55	(8)
William James	63	(14)
``The Will to Believe'' (1897)	64	(13)
Josiah Royce	77	(12)
``The Problem of Job'' (1898)	78	(11)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman	89	(7)
Selection from Women and Economics (1898)	90	(6)
Henry Adams	96	(5)
``The Dynamo and the Virgin'' (1907)	97	(4)
George Santayana	101	(19)
``The Genteel Tradition in American Philosophy'' (1913)	102	(15)
Part Two: Social Progress and the Power of Intellect
Introduction	117	(3)
Jane Addams	120	(6)
``The Subjective Necessity of Social Settlements'' (1892)	121	(5)
Thorstein Veblen	126	(14)
Selection from The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899)	127	(13)
Woodrow Wilson	140	(8)
``The Ideals of America'' (1902)	141	(7)
W. E. B. Du Bois	148	(6)
Selection from The Souls of Black Folk (1903)	149	(5)
William James	154	(11)
``What Pragmatism Means'' (1907)	155	(10)
Walter Lippmann	165	(5)
Selection from Drift and Mastery (1914)	166	(4)
Randolph Bourne	170	(18)
``Trans-National America'' (1916)	171	(10)
``Twilight of Idols'' (1917)	181	(7)
H. L. Mencken	188	(9)
``Puritanism as a Literary Force'' (1917)	189	(8)
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.	197	(4)
``Natural Law'' (1918)	198	(3)
John Dewey	201	(9)
``Philosophy and Democracy'' (1918)	202	(8)
Margaret Mead	210	(7)
Selection from Coming of Age in Samoa (1928)	211	(6)
John Crowe Ransom	217	(12)
``Reconstructed but Unregenerate'' (1930)	218	(11)
Sidney Hook	229	(10)
``Communism without Dogmas'' (1934)	230	(9)
Thurman Arnold	239	(11)
Selection from Symbols of Government (1935)	240	(7)
Part Three: To Extend Democracy and to Formulate the Modern
Introduction	247	(3)
Clement Greenberg	250	(10)
``Avant-Garde and Kitsch'' (1939)	251	(9)
Henry Luce	260	(5)
Selection from ``The American Century'' (1941)	261	(4)
Henry A. Wallace	265	(5)
Selection from The Century of the Common Man (1943)	266	(4)
Gunnar Myrdal	270	(9)
Selection from An American Dilemma (1944)	271	(8)
Reinhold Niebuhr	279	(7)
Selection from The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness (1944)	280	(6)
Albert Einstein	286	(7)
``Atomic War or Peace'' (1947)	288	(5)
Aldo Leopold	293	(6)
Selection from A Sand County Almanac (1949)	294	(5)
Erik H. Erikson	299	(15)
Selection from Childhood and Society (1950)	300	(14)
James Baldwin	314	(10)
``Many Thousands Gone'' (1951)	315	(9)
George F. Kennan	324	(5)
Selection from American Diplomacy, 1900-1950 (1951)	325	(4)
Whittaker Chambers	329	(13)
Selection from Witness (1952)	330	(12)
Hannah Arendt	342	(11)
``Ideology and Terror'' (1953)	343	(10)
John Courtney Murray	353	(8)
Selection from We Hold These Truths (1960)	354	(7)
Daniel Bell	361	(7)
``The End of Ideology in the West'' (1960)	362	(6)
W. W. Rostow	368	(8)
Selection from The Stages of Economic Growth (1960)	369	(7)
Lionel Trilling	376	(14)
``On the Teaching of Modern Literature'' (1961)	377	(13)
Milton Friedman	390	(15)
Selection from Capitalism and Freedom (1962)	391	(12)
Part Four: Exploring Diversity and Postmodernity
Introduction	403	(2)
Thomas S. Kuhn	405	(9)
Selection from The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962)	406	(8)
Martin Luther King, Jr.	414	(8)
Selection from ``Letter from a Birmingham Jail'' (1963)	415	(7)
Betty Friedan	422	(7)
Selection from The Feminine Mystique (1963)	423	(6)
Susan Sontag	429	(8)
``Against Interpretation'' (1964)	430	(7)
Malcolm X	437	(8)
Selection from ``The Ballot or the Bullet'' (1964)	438	(7)
Herbert Marcuse	445	(10)
Selection from One-Dimensional Man (1964)	446	(9)
Noam Chomsky	455	(10)
``The Responsibility of Intellectuals'' (1967)	456	(9)
Edward Said	465	(11)
Selection from Orientalism (1978)	466	(10)
Nancy J. Chodorow	476	(12)
``Gender, Relation, and Difference in Psychoanalytic Perspective'' (1979)	477	(11)
Richard Rorty	488	(11)
``Science as Solidarity'' (1986)	489	(10)
Gloria Anzaldua	499	(6)
Selection from Borderlands/La Frontera (1987)	500	(5)
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.	505	(11)
Selection from Loose Canons (1990)	506	(10)
Joan W. Scott	516	(12)
Selection from ``The Evidence of Experience'' (1991)	517	(11)
Samuel P. Huntington	528	(7)
``The Clash of Civilizations'' (1993)	529	(6)
Carl Sagan	535	(12)
Selection from The Demon-Haunted World (1995)	536	(11)
Chronologies	547