Daniel Wickberg

A History of American Thought 1860-2000

Thinking the Modern

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is a comprehensive overview of the history of modern American thought and examines a wide range of modern thought and thinkers from 1860, when Charles Darwinâ s Origin of Species was published in the United States, to the end of the twentieth century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 152mm x 231mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 486g
• ISBN-13: 9780367633110
• ISBN-10: 0367633116
• Artikelnr.: 68100740

Autorenporträt

Daniel Wickberg has taught intellectual history at the University of Texas at Dallas for over 25 years. His primary areas of research are the history of American social thought and historiography. He is the author of The Senses of Humor: Self and Laughter in Modern America (1998).

Inhaltsangabe

PART I: AMERICAN MODERNISMS: 1865-1919
1. DARWINISM AND THE EVOLUTIONARY SENSIBILITY
2. PRAGMATISM AND ANTIFOUNDATIONAL THOUGHT
3. THE RESEARCH UNIVERSITY, THE IDEA OF CULTURE, AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
4. PROGRESSIVISMS
5. RETHINKING WOMAN AND MAN
PART II: THE CONTRADICTIONS OF THE DEMOCRATIC IMAGINATION: 1920-1962
6. CULTURAL RELATIVISMS AND MODERN HIERARCHIES
7. SCIENCE AS CULTURE: THE MORAL ORDER OF MODERNITY
8. FROM PROTESTANT HEGEMONY TO RELIGIOUS PLURALISM
9. PLURALISM AND COSMOPOLITANISM
10. SELF AND SOCIAL ORDER IN THE COLD WAR WORLD
PART III: RETHINKING MODERNISM: 1963-2000
11. CULTURAL REVOLUTIONS AND RUPTURES
12. THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF EVERYTHING
13. THE RETURN OF NATURE
14. GENDER AND SEXUALITY
15. CULTURE WARS