The Chicago Pragmatists and American Progressivism / Andrew Feffer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Feffer, Andrew, 1954- Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dewey, John, 1859-1952.

Dewey, John.

Progressivism (United States politics).

Pragmatism.

Chicago school of sociology.

United States--Intellectual life.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021

Place of Publication:

Ithaca (N.Y.) ; London : Cornell University Press, 1993.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Founded in 1894 at a peak of social and industrial turmoil, the Chicago school of pragmatist philosophy is emblematic of the progressive spirit of early twentieth-century America. The Chicago pragmatists under the leadership of John Dewey pursued a close critique of the modern workplace, school, and neighborhood which provided a theoretical base for the progressive reform agenda. Andrew Feffer here provides a richly textured group portrait of Dewey and his colleagues George Herbert Mead and James Hayden Tufts against the backdrop of Chicago's social history.In this nuanced intellectual biography of the Chicago pragmatists, Feffer retraces the story of their personal involvement in reform movements and examines how they revised contemporary political rhetoric and social theory in order to reestablish the foundations of democracy in productive and rewarding work. Drawing on liberal Christian reformist as well as philosophical idealist traditions, the pragmatists advanced a radically humanistic social theory that attacked the regimentation of factory life and demanded the democratization of industry and education. Feffer also gives an account of certain elitist and anti-democratic assumptions of pragmatist theory; he shows, in particular, how progressive reformers inherited the pragmatists' mistrust of the political impulses of the industrial workers they championed.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

INTRODUCTION. The Two Souls of Chicago Pragmatism

CHAPTER ONE. God in Christ

CHAPTER TWO. Early Years

CHAPTER THREE. The Psychological Standpoint

CHAPTER FOUR. From Socialized Church to Spiritualized Society

CHAPTER FIVE. Labor Is the House Love Lives In

CHAPTER SIX. The Educational Situation

CHAPTER SEVEN. The Reflex-Arc

CHAPTER EIGHT. The Working Hypothesis and Social Reform

CHAPTER NINE. Between Head and Hand

CHAPTER TEN. Splitting up the Schools

CHAPTER ELEVEN. Between Management and Labor

CHAPTER TWELVE. A Cloud of Witnesses

CHAPTER THIRTEEN. The Twilight of Cooperation

Index

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ISBN:

9781501721472

150172147X

OCLC:

1083628103