Revised and expanded, the second edition of this uniquely comprehensive two-volume anthology of many of the most significant documents in American intellectual history offers new selections from a diversity of authors; an extensive chronology connecting several hundred important books and
essays with events in American and European intellectual, cultural, and political history; and updated bibliographies and headnotes. The anthology makes readily available substantial selections from the writings of prominent American thinkers, ranged chronologically from the establishment of the
Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630 to the present. Designed for easy use by a wide range of readers, it is an invaluable reader for anyone interested in intellectual history, American history, American studies, or American literature.
Volume I (to 1865) now offers new selections by Sarah M. Grimk'e, Horace Bushnell, and Louisa S. McCord, and Volume II (1865-present) now offers new selections by Charles Hodge, Henry Adams, George Santayana, W.E.B. Du Bois, Randolph Bourne, H.L. Mencken, John Crowe Ransom, Meridel Le Sueur,
Reinhold Niebuhr, Ralph Ellison, Whittaker Chambers, Betty Friedan, Adrienne Rich, Evelyn Fox Keller, Richard Rorty, and Michael Walzer.
Revised and expanded, the second edition of this uniquely comprehensive two-volume anthology of many of the most significant documents in American intellectual history offers new selections from a diversity of authors; an extensive chronology connecting several hundred important books and essays with events in American and European intellectual, cultural, and political history; and updated bibliographies and headnotes. The anthology makes readily available substantial selections from the writings of prominent American thinkers, ranged chronologically from the establishment of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630 to the present. Designed for easy use by a wide range of readers, it is an invaluable reader for anyone interested in intellectual history, American history, American studies, or American literature.
Volume I (to 1865) now offers new selections by Sarah M. Grimké, Horace Bushnell, and Louisa S. McCord, and Volume II (1865-present) now offers new selections by Charles Hodge, Henry Adams, George Santayana, W.E.B. Du Bois, Randolph Bourne, H.L. Mencken, John Crowe Ransom, Meridel Le Sueur, Reinhold Niebuhr, Ralph Ellison, Whittaker Chambers, Betty Friedan, Adrienne Rich, Evelyn Fox Keller, Richard Rorty, and Michael Walzer.
' Part One: Toward a Secular Culture
Introduction
Selection from Systematic Theology 1872,, Charles Hodge
\"The fixation of Belief\" 1877,, Charles Peirce
\"Pernicious Fiction\" 1887,, William Dean Howells
\"Sociology\" 1881,, William Graham Sumner
\"Mind as a Social Factor\" 1884,, Lester Frank Ward
\"Solitude of Self,, Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Selection from Women and Economics 1898,, Charlotte Perkins Gilman
\"The Problem of Job,, Josiah Royce
\"The Will to Believe\",, William James
\"The Dynamo and the Virgin\" 1907,, Henry Adams
\"The Genteel Tradition in American Philosophy\" 1913,, George Santayana
Part Two: Social Progress and the Power of Intellect
Introduction
\"What Pragmatism Means\" 1907,, William James
\"Natural Law\" 1918,, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Selection from The Theory of the Leisure Class 1898,, Thorstein Veblen
\"Of the Sons of Master and Man\" 1903,, W. E. B. Dubois
\"The Subjective Necessity of Social Settlements\" 1892,, Jane Addams
\"The Influence of Darwinism on Philosophy\" 1909
Selection from The Public and Its Problems 1927,, John Dewey
\"Transnational America\" 1916
\"Twilight of the Idols\" 1917,, Randolph Bourne
\"The National Letters\" 1920,, H. L. Mencken
Selection from Coming of Age in Somoa 1928,, Margaret Mead
\"Reconstruction but Unregenerate\" 1930,, John Crowe Ransom
\"An Appeal to Progressives\" 1931,, Edmund Wilson
\"I Was Marching\" 1934,, Meridel Lesueur
Part Three: To Formulate the Modern
Introduction
\"The Rejection of Metaphysics\" 1935,, Rudolf Carnap
Selection from The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness 1944,, Reinhold Niebuhr
Selection from Witness 1952,, Whittaker Chambers
Selection from Beyond Freedom and Dignity 1971,, B. F. Skinner
\"The End of Ideology in the West\" 1960,, Daniel Bell
Selection from The Sociological Imagination,, C. Wright Mills
\"On the Teaching of Modern Literature\" 1961,, Lionel Trilling
Selection from The Structure of Scientific Revolutions 1962,, Thomas S. Kuhn
\"Letter from the Birmingham Jail\" 1963,, Martin Luther King, Jr.
\"Review of An American Dilemma\" 1964,, Ralph Ellison
Selection from The Feminine Mystique 1963,, Betty Friedan
\"Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence\" 1980,, Adrienne Rich
\"Science as Solidarity\" 1986,, Richard Rorty
\"Gender and Science: 1990\" 1990,, Evelyn Fox Keller
\"What Does It Mean to be an \'American\'?\" 1990,, Michael Walzer
Appendix: Chronologies
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