Main entry:

Feffer, Andrew, 1954-

Title & Author:

The Chicago pragmatists and American progressivism / Andrew Feffer.

Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1993.

Description:

xi, 279 pages ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: The Two Souls of Chicago Pragmatism -- 1. God in Christ -- 2. Early Years -- 3. The Psychological Standpoint -- 4. From Socialized Church to Spiritualized Society -- 5. Labor Is the House Love Lives In -- 6. The Educational Situation -- 7. The Reflex-Arc -- 8. The Working Hypothesis and Social Reform -- 9. Between Head and Hand -- 10. Splitting up the Schools -- 11. Between Management and Labor -- 12. A Cloud of Witnesses -- 13. The Twilight of Cooperation.
Dust jacket.

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. At the center of this progressive philosophy was the elimination of social divisions including the fundamental rift between intellectual and manual labor. 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. Linking a major current in American thought to the history of industrial relations, The Chicago Pragmatists and American Progressivism contributes to current debates in intellectual history, labor history, political theory, and American studies.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0801425026 (alk. paper)
9780801425028 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Dewey, John, 1859-1952.
Chicago school of sociology.
Pragmatism.
Progressivism (United States politics)
École de Chicago (Sociologie)
Pragmatisme.
Progressisme États-Unis.
pragmatism.
Intellectual life
Social conditions
Progressismus
Pragmatismus
United States Intellectual life 1865-1918.
United States Social conditions 1865-1918.
États-Unis Vie intellectuelle 1865-1918.
États-Unis Conditions sociales 1865-1918.
United States
USA
Chicago, Ill.
Dewey, 1859-1952
United Intellectual 1865-1918
United Social 1865-1918

Holdings:

Location: Library main 103660
Call No.: ID PLS E169.1.F32; ID:94-B1825
Status: Available