Contributor
Hollinger, David A.
Edition Statement:6th ed.
Imprint:New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Description2 v. ; 24 cm.
Note:v. 1. 1630-1865 -- v. 2. 1865 to the present.
Note:VOLUME ONE. PART ONE: THE PURITAN VISION ALTERED. Introduction ; A "Modell of Christian charity" (1630) / John Winthrop ; Selection from A Treatise of the Covenant of Grace (1636) / John Cotton ; The "Examination of Mrs. Anne Hutchinson at the court at Newtown" (1637) / Anne Hutchinson ; The Bloudy tenent of persecution for cause of conscience (1644) / Roger Williams ; Selection from Bonifacius (1710) / Cotton Mather ; Enthusiasm described and caution'd against (1742) / Charles Chauncy ; "Sinners in the hands of an angry God" (1741) / Jonathan Edwards ; Selection from A Treatise concerning religious affections / Jonathan Edwards -- PART TWO: REPUBLICAN ENLIGHTENMENT. Introduction ; Selection from The Autobiography (1784-88) / Benjamin Franklin ; A Dissertaions on the canon and the feudal law (1765) / John Adams ; Selection from Common sense (1776) / Thomas Paine ; The Declaration of independence (1776) / Thomas Jefferson ; "Constitutional convention speech on a plan of government" (1787) / Alexander Hamilton ; Selection from "Essays of Brutus" (1787-88) / "Brutus" ; The Federalist, "Number 10" and "Number 51" (1787-88) / James Madison ; "On the equality of the sexes (1790) / Judith Sargent Murray ; Letters to Samuel Adams (October 18, 1790) and to Thomas Jefferson (November 15, 1813; April 19, 1817) / John Adams Selection from Notes on the State of Virginia (1787) / Thomas Jefferson ; Letters to John Adams, October 28, 1813; to Benjamin Rush, with a syllabus, April 21, 1803; and to Thomas Law, June 13, 1814 / Thomas Jefferson -- PART THREE: PROTESTAN AWAKENING AND DEMOCRATIC ORDER. Introduction ; "Unitarian Christianity" (1819) / William Ellery Channing ; Concio ad clerum (1828) / Nathaniel William Taylor ; Selection from Lectures on revivals of religion (1835) / Charles Grandison Finney ; Selection from The Berean / John Humphrey Noyes ; Selection from Thoughts on African colonization (1832) / William Lloyd Garrison ; "Prospectus of The Liberator" (1837) / William Lloyd Garrison ; Selection from Letters on the equality of the sexes, and the condition of woman (1838) / Sarah Grimke ; The "Office of the people in art, government, and religion" (1835) / George Bancroft ; The "Laboring classes (1840) / Orestes Brownson ; Selection from A Treatise on domestic economy (1841) / Catherine Beecher ; Selection from The Harmony of interests (1851) / Harry C. Carey -- PART FOUR: ROMANTIC INTELLECT AND CULTURAL REFORM. Introduction ; The "Divinity school address (1838) / Ralph Waldo Emerson ; "Self-reliance" (1841) / Ralph Waldo Emerson ; A "Glimpse of Christ's idea of society (1841) / Elizabeth Palmer Peabody ; "Plan of the West Roxbury Community (1842) / Elizabeth Palmer Peabody ; Selection from Woman in the nineteenth century (1845) / Margaret Fuller ; "Resistance to civil government" (1849) / Henry David Thoreau ; "Christian nurture" (1847) / Horace Bushnell ; "Hawthorne and his mosses" (1850) / Herman Melville -- PART FIVE: THE QUEST FOR UNION AND RENEWAL. Introduction ; Selection from A Disquisition on government (c. late 1840s) / John C. Calhoun ; "Enfranchisement of woman" (1852) / Louisa McCord ; Selection from Sociology for the south (1854) / George Fitzhugh ; Selection from The Condition, elevation, emigration, and destiny of the colored people of the United States (1852) / Martin Delany ; "What to the slave is the fourth of July?" (1852) / Frederick Douglass ; "Speech at Peoria, Illinois (1854) / Abraham Lincoln ; "Address before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society" (1859) / Abraham Lincoln ; "Address delivered at the dedication for the cemetery at Gettysburg" (1863) / Abraham Lincoln ; "Second inaugural address" (1865) / Abraham Lincoln ; Chronologies.
Note:VOLUME TWO. PART ONE: TOWARD A SECULAR CULTURE. Introduction ; Selection from "Review of Darwin's On the origin of species" (1860) / Asa Gray ; Selection from A "Plea for culture" (1867) / Thomas Wentworth Higginson ; The "Fixation of belief" (1877) / Charles Peirce ; "Sociology" (1881) / William Graham Sumner ; Selection from Biblical study (1883) / Charles Augustus Briggs ; "Mind as a social factor" (1884) / Lester Frank Ward ; "Pernicious fiction" (1887) / William Dean Howells ; The "Solitude of self" (1892) / Elizabeth Cady Stanton ; The "Significance of the frontier in American history" (1893) / Frederick Jackson Turner ; The "Will to believe" (1897) / William James ; The "Problem of Job" (1898) / Josiah Royce ; Selection from Women and economics (1898) / Charlotte Perkins Gilman ; The "Dynamo and the virgin" (1907) / Henry Adams ; The "Genteel tradition in American philosophy" (1913) / George Santayana -- PART TWO: SOCIAL PROGRESS AND THE POWER OF INTELLECT. Introduction ; The "Subjective necessity of social settlements" (1892) / Jane Addams ; Selection from The Theory of the leisure class (1899) / Thorstein Veblen ; The 'Ideals of America (1902) / Woodrow Wilson ; Selection from The Souls of Black folk (1903) / W.E.B. Du Bois ; "What pragmatism means" (1907) / William James ; Selection from Drift and mastery (1914) / Walter Lippmann ; "Trans-national America" (1916) / Randolph Bourne ; "Twilight of idols" (1917) / Randolph Bourne ; "Puritanism as a literary force" (1917) / H.L. Mencken ; "Natural law" (1918) / Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. ; "Philosophy and democracy" (1918) / John Dewey ; Selection from Coming of age in Samoa (1928) / Margaret Mead ; Selection from The Modern temper (1929) / Joseph Wood Krutch ; "Reconstucted by unregenerate" (1930) / John Crowe Ransom ; "Communism without dogmas" (1934) / Sidney Hook -- PART THREE: TO EXTEND DEMOCRACY AND TO FORMULATE THE MODERN. Introduction ; "Avant-garde and kitsch" (1939) / Clement Greenberg ; Selection from TVA: Democracy on the march (1994) / David E. Lilienthal ; Selection from An American dilemma (1944) / Gunnar Myrdal ; Selection from The Children of light and the children of darkness (1944) / Reinhold Niebuhr ; Selection from Childhood and society (1950) / Erik H. Erikson ; "Many thousands gone" (1951) / James Baldwin ; Selection from American diplomacy, 1900-1950 (1951) / George F. Kennan ; Selection from Witness (1952) / Whittaker Chambers ; "Ideology and terror" (1953) / Hannah Arendt ; The "Sciences and man's community (1954) / J. Robert Oppenheimer ; "Innovation: the new conservatism?" (1959) / Peter F. Drucker ; Selection from We hold these truths (1960) / John Courtney Murray ; The "End of ideology in the West" (1960) / Daniel Bell ; Selection from The Stages of economic growth (1960) / W.W. Rostow ; "On the teaching of modern literature (1961) / Lionel Trilling ; Selection from Capitalism and freedom (1962) / Milton Friedman ; "Man's rights" (1963) / Ayn Rand -- PART FOUR: REASSESSING IDENTITIES AND SOLICARITIES. Introduction ; "Christianity's third great challenge (1960) / Wilfred Cantwell Smith ; "Resurgent evangelical leadership" (1960) / Harold John Ockenga ; "Letter to the New Left" (1960) / C. Wright Mills ; "Revolutionary nationalism and the Afro-American" (1962) / Harold Cruse ; Selection from The Structure of scientific revolutions (1962) / Thomas S. Kuhn ; Selection from The Feminine mystique (1963) / Betty Friedan / Selection from "Letter from a Birmingham jail" (1963) / Martin Luther King, Jr. ; "Against interpretation" (1964) / Susan Sontag ; Selection from One-dimensional man (1964) / Herbert Marcuse ; The "Responsibility of intellectuals" (1967) / Noam Chomsky ; Selection from Orientalism (1978) / Edward W. Said ; "Gender, relation, and a difference in psycholanalytic perspective" (1979) / Nancy J. Chodorow ; "Science as solidarity" (1986) / Richard Rorty ; The "Idea of an overlapping consensus" (1987) / John Rawls ; Selection from Feminism unmodified: discourses on life and law (1987) / Catharine MacKinnon ; Selection from Loose canons: notes on the culture wars (1990) / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. ; Selection from The "Evidence of experience" (1991) / Joan W. Scott ; The "Clash of civilizations (1993) / Samuel P. Huntington ; Selection from The End of the faith (2004) / Sam Harris ; Selection from Whole earth discipline: an ecopragmatist manifesto (2009) / Stewart Brand ; Chronologies.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references.
Note:"Revised and updated, the sixth edition of this now standard two-volume anthology brings together some of the most historically significan writings in American intellectual history. Uniquely comprehensive, The American Intellectual Tradition includes classic works in philosophy, religion, social theory, political thought, economics, psychology, and cultural and litereary criticism. Organized chronologically into thematic sections, the two volumes trace the evolution of American intellectual writing and thinking from its origins in Puritan beliefs to the most recent essays on diversity and postmodernity. Pedagogical features include introductions and headnotes to the selections, updated bibliographic material throughout, and detailed chronologies at the end of each book."--Back book cover
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