The Chicago Pragmatists and American Progressivism

The Chicago Pragmatists and American Progressivism
Author :
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Total Pages : 296
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781501721472
ISBN-13 : 150172147X
Rating : 4/5 (72 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Chicago Pragmatists and American Progressivism by : Andrew Feffer

Download or read book The Chicago Pragmatists and American Progressivism written by Andrew Feffer and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


The Chicago Pragmatists and American Progressivism Related Books

The Chicago Pragmatists and American Progressivism
Language: en
Pages: 296
Authors: Andrew Feffer
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-10-18 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

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 twentie
Chicago
Language: en
Pages: 472
Authors: Dominic A. Pacyga
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-10-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Chicago has been called by many names. Nelson Algren declared it a “City on the Make.” Carl Sandburg dubbed it the “City of Big Shoulders.” Upton Sincla
The Plan of Chicago
Language: en
Pages: 203
Authors: Carl Smith
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-08-01 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Arguably the most influential document in the history of urban planning, Daniel Burnham’s 1909 Plan of Chicago, coauthored by Edward Bennett and produced in c
Corruption and Reform in the Teamsters Union
Language: en
Pages: 324
Authors: David Scott Witwer
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: University of Illinois Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Almost since its creation at the close of the nineteenth century, the Teamsters Union has had recurring problems with corruption. This book is the first in-dept
Encyclopedia of U.S. Labor and Working-class History
Language: en
Pages: 1734
Authors: Eric Arnesen
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007 - Publisher: Taylor & Francis

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Publisher Description