Jane Addams And The Practice Of Democracy

by Fischer Marilyn (Ed)

• ISBN13: 9780252076121
• ISBN10: 0252076125
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-12-23
• Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr

Summary

Using a rich array of newly available sources and contemporary methodologies from many disciplines, the ten original essays in this volume give a fresh appraisal of Addams as a theorist and practitioner of democracy. In an increasingly interdependent world, Addams's life work offers resources for activists, scholars, policy makers, and theorists alike. This volume demonstrates how scholars continue to interpret Addams as a model for transcending disciplinary boundaries, generating theory out of concrete experience, and keeping theory and practice in close and fruitful dialogue. Contributors are Harriet Hyman Alonso, Victoria Bissell Brown, Wendy Chmielewski, Marilyn Fischer, Shannon Jackson, Louise W. Knight, Carol Nackenoff, Karen Pastorello, Wendy Sarvasay, Charlene Haddock Seigfried, and Camilla Stivers.

Author Biography

Marilyn Fischer is a professor of philosophy at the University of Dayton and a coeditor of a four-volume set of Jane Addams's Writings on Peace. Carol Nackenoff is Richter Professor of Political Science at Swarthmore College and the author of The Fictional Republic: Horatio Alger and American Political Discourse. Wendy Chmielewski is the George Cooley Curator of the Swarthmore College Peace Collection, which holds the largest collection of Jane Addams's papers and other material related to Addams and her work for peace.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. Vii
Introduction	p. 1
AddamsÆs Experimental Method
The Sermon of the Deed: Jane AddamsÆs Spiritual Evolution	p. 21
The Courage of oneÆs Convictions or the Conviction of oneÆs Courage? Jane AddamsÆs Principled Compromises	p. 40
Jane Addams and the Practice of Democratic Citizenship
Jane AddamsÆs Theory of Cooperation	p. 65
A Civic Machinery for Democratic Expression: Jane Addams on Public Administration	p. 87
ôThe Transfigured Fewö: Jane Addams, Bessie Abramowitz Hillman, and Immigrant Women Workers in Chicago, 1905-15	p. 98
New Politics for New Selves: Jane AddamsÆs Legacy for Democratic Citizenship in the Twenty-First Century	p. 119
Toward a Queer Social Welfare Studies: Unsettling Jane Addams	p. 143
Democratic Cosmopolitanism and Peace
The Conceptual Scaffolding of Newer Ideals of Peace	p. 165
A Global ôCommon Tableö: Jane AddamsÆs Theory of Democratic Cosmopolitanism and World Social Citizenship	p. 183
Can Jane Addams Serve as a Role Model for Us Today?	p. 203
Contributors	p. 219
Index	p. 223
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