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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783841903321

Autore

Livingston James <1949, >

Titolo

Pragmatism, feminism, and democracy : rethinking the politics of American history / / James Livingston

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2001

ISBN

1-135-95572-7

1-135-95573-5

1-280-35506-9

0-203-90135-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (235 p.)

Disciplina

306.0973

973/.07/2

Soggetti

Progressivism (United States politics) - History

Pragmatism - History

Feminism - United States - History

Capitalism - United States - History

Socialism - United States - History

United States Politics and government 1865-1933

United States Historiography

United States Intellectual life 1865-1918

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-223) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Pragmatism, Feminism, and Democracy; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Attitudes Toward History; Part 1. Pragmatism, Feminism, and the Politics of Historiography; 1. Modern Subjectivity and Consumer Culture: The Revenge of the New Woman; The Terms of Debate; Primal Scenes in American Historiography; Epistemology of Excess; 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

3. The Strange Career of the "Social Self"From Royce to Wahl to KojeĢ€ve; Jane Addams, Jessie Taft, and the "Social Claim"; Dewey and the Self's



Determination; 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; 5. Hamlet, James, and the Woman Question; Reinstating the Vague; Father and Son; Difference and Equality

The Worst Kind of Melancholy6. Unstiffening 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: No Exit; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.