The Chicago Pragmatists and American Progressivism / / Andrew Feffer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Feffer, Andrew,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©1993
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)

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.

Table of 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