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Tables of Contents for American Intellectual Tradition
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
ix
Part One: Toward a Secular Culture
Introduction
3
2
Charles Peirce
5
11
``The Fixation of Belief'' (1877)
6
10
William Dean Howells
16
4
``Pernicious Fiction'' (1887)
17
3
William Graham Sumner
20
10
``Sociology'' (1881)
21
9
Lester Frank Ward
30
9
``Mind as a Social Factor'' (1884)
31
8
Elizabeth Cady Station
39
6
``The Solitude of Self'' (1892)
40
5
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
45
7
Selection from Women and Economics (1898)
46
6
Josiah Royce
52
13
``The Problem of Job'' (1898)
53
12
William James
65
14
``The Will to Believe'' (1897)
66
13
Henry Adams
79
5
``The Dynamo and the Virgin'' (1907)
80
4
Frederick Jackson Turner
84
9
``The Significance of the Frontier in American History'' (1893)
85
8
George Santayana
93
16
``The Genteel Tradition in American Philosophy'' (1913)
94
15
Part Two: Social Progress and the Power of Intellect
Introduction
109
3
William James
112
11
``What Pragmatism Means'' (1907)
113
10
Woodrow Wilson
123
8
``The Ideals of America'' (1902)
124
7
Jane Addams
131
6
``The Subjective Necessity of Social Settlements'' (1892)
132
5
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
137
4
``Natural Law'' (1918)
138
3
Thorstein Veblen
141
15
Selection from The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899)
142
14
W. E. B. Du Bois
156
6
Selection from The Souls of Black Folk (1903)
157
5
John Dewey
162
9
Philosophy and Democracy (1918)
163
8
Randolph Bourne
171
19
``Trans-National America'' (1916)
172
10
``Twilight of Idols'' (1917)
182
8
H. L. Mencken
190
9
``Puritanism as a Literary Force'' (1917)
191
8
Margaret Mead
199
8
Selection from Coming of Age in Samoa (1928)
200
7
John Crowe Ransom
207
12
``Reconstructed but Unregenerate'' (1930)
208
11
Sidney Hook
219
12
``Communism without Dogmas'' (1934)
220
11
Part Three: To Extend Democracy and to Formulate the Modern
Introduction
231
2
Clement Greenberg
233
10
``Avant-Garde and Kitsch'' (1939)
234
9
David E. Lilienthal
243
6
Selection from TVA: Democracy on the March (1944)
244
5
Gunnar Myrdal
249
9
Selection from An American Dilemma (1944)
250
8
Reinhold Niebuhr
258
8
Selection from The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness (1944)
259
7
Lillian Smith
266
7
Selection from Killers of the Dream (1949)
267
6
Whittaker Chambers
273
14
Selection from Witness (1952)
274
13
Hannah Arendt
287
11
``Ideology and Terror'' (1953)
288
10
Erik H. Erikson
298
17
Selection from Childhood and Society (1950)
300
15
John Courtney Murray
315
8
Selection from We Hold These Truths (1960)
316
7
Lionel Trilling
323
15
``On the Teaching of Modern Literature'' (1961)
324
14
Daniel Bell
338
7
``The End of Ideology in the West'' (1960)
338
7
W. W. Rostow
345
8
Selection from The Stages of Economic Growth (1960)
346
7
C. Wright Mills
353
12
``Letter to the New Left'' (1960)
354
11
Part Four: Exploring Diversity and Postmodernity
Introduction
365
2
Thomas S. Kuhn
367
9
Selection from The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962)
368
8
Martin Luther King, Jr.
376
8
Selection from ``Letter from a Birmingham Jail'' (1963)
377
7
Betty Friedan
384
6
Selection from The Feminine Mystique (1963)
385
5
Susan Sontag
390
8
``Against Interpretation'' (1964)
391
7
Malcolm X
398
8
Selection from ``The Ballot or the Bullet'' (1964)
399
7
Noam Chomsky
406
10
``The Responsibility of Intellectuals'' (1967)
407
9
Samuel Huntington
416
6
Selection from ``The Democratic Distemper'' (1975)
417
5
Ralph Ellison
422
18
``The Little Man at Chehaw Station (1977)
423
17
Nancy J. Chodorow
440
12
``Gender, Relation, and Difference in Psychoanalytic Perspective (1979)
441
11
Richard Rorty
452
11
``Science as Solidarity'' (1986)
453
10
Judith Butler
463
7
Selection from Gender Trouble (1990)
464
6
Kwame Anthony Appiah
470
13
Selection from In My Father's House (1992)
472
11
Chronologies
483