Pragmatism, Feminism, and Democracy:

Pragmatism, Feminism, and Democracyis James Livingston's virtuoso reflection on the period between 1890 and 1930, a primal scene of American history during which a wave of intellectual currents came together--and fell apart--to reorient society. Tying in critical insights on corporate capitalism, consumer culture, populism, and the American Left, Livingston analyzes the intersections and similarities of pragmatism and feminism to yield an original, provocative blend of historiography, feminist theory, and American intellectual history.

Acknowledgments

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Introduction: Attitudes Toward History

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Part 1. Pragmatism, Feminism, and the Politics of Historigraphy

Modern Subjectivity and Consumer Culture: The Revenge of the New Woman

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The Terms of Debate

Primal Scenes in American Historiography

Epistemology of Excess

Fighting the ``War of Position'': The Politics of Pragmatism

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Pragmatism as a Comic ``Frame of Acceptance''

Cultural Criticism and Corporate Capitalism

Corporate Capitalism and Cultural Politics

The Strange Career of the ``Social Self'':

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From Royce to Wahl to Kojeve

Jane Addams, Jessie Taft, and the ``Social Claim''

Dewey and the Self's Determination

Narrative Politics: Richard Rorty at the ``End of Reform''

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Marxism or Pragmatism?

Real or Cultural Politics?

Tragedy or Comedy?

Appendix: Memo to the Cultural Left, or, How to Be ``Critical of `the System' and Crazy about the Country''

Part 2. Escaping the ``Economy of Heaven'': William James at the Edges of Our Differences

Hamlet, James, and the Woman Question

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Reinstating the Vague

Father and Son

Difference and Equality

The Worst Kind of Melancholy

Unstiffening Our Theories: Pragmatism, Feminism, and the End(s) of Capitalism

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The Gender of Modernity

Nietzsche, Butler, James

Marxism in Green, Feminism in Red, Populism in Drag

Corporate Personality, Bureaucratic Rationality, and Modern Feminism

Afterword: No Exit

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Notes

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Index

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Pragmatism, Feminism, and Democracy: Rethinking the Politics of American History

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