[PDF] Working Class Intellectuals And Evolutionary Thought In America 1870 1915 eBook

Author : Richard Hofstadter
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 26,33 MB
Release : 2017-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1512816973

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Social Darwinism in American Thought examines the overall influence of Darwin on American social theory and the notable battle waged among thinkers over the implications of evolutionary theory for social thought and political action. Theorists such as Herbert Spencer and William Graham Sumner adopted the idea of the struggle for existence as justification for the evils—as well as the benefits—of laissez-faire modern industrial society. Others, such as William James and John Dewey, argued that human planning was needed to direct social development and improve on the natural order. Hofstadter's classic study of the ramifications of Darwinism is a major analysis of the social philosophies that animated intellectual movements of the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era.

Author : James R. Moore
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 32,59 MB
Release : 1981-10-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780521285179

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The Post-Darwinian Controversies offers an original interpretation of Protestant responses to Darwin after 1870, viewing them in a transatlantic perspective and as a constitutive part of the history of post-Darwinian evolutionary thought. The impact of evolutionary theory on the religious consciousness of the nineteenth century has commonly been seen in terms of a 'conflict' or 'warfare' between science and theology. Dr. Moore's account begins by discussing the polemical origins and baneful effects of the 'military metaphor', and this leads to a revised view of the controversies based on an analysis of the underlying intellectual struggle to come to terms with Darwin. The middle section of the book distinguishes the 'Darwinism' of Darwin himself amid the main currents of post-Darwinian evolutionary thought, and is followed by chapters which examine the responses to Darwin of twenty-eight Christian controversialists, tracing the philosophical and theological lineage of their views. The paradox that emerges - that Darwin's theory was accepted in substance only by those whose theology was distinctly orthodox theology and of other evolutionary theories with liberal and romantic theological speculation.

Author : Gregory S. Kealey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 35,83 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521545716

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Examines Canada's working-class vision of an alternative to late nineteenth-century industrial-capitalist society.

Author : Michael E. James
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 21,13 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780820457796

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The Conspiracy of the Good addresses nagging questions that are part of the public debate over schooling. Why do our public schools, especially those in poor and working-class communities of color, fail to live up to the promises of the American dream? Why do reforms, those standard items in political campaigns, fail to create meaningful change? This book argues that «progressive», well-meaning, good-hearted men and women, who often advocate «good intentions» in the name of «helping those in need», have ended up doing more harm than good. The Conspiracy of the Good explores how these «good intentions» go awry. Michael E. James argues that the core value of the American experience is conflict - not consensus - despite what mainstream historians have espoused over the last few decades.

Author : Katherine Pandora
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 26,39 MB
Release : 2002-08-22
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780521524940

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During the 1930s, psychologists Gordon Allport, Gardner Murphy, and Lois Barclay Murphy emerged from the fields of social and personality psychology to challenge the neo-behavioralist status quo in American social science. Willing to experiment with the idea of 'science' itself, these 'rebels within the ranks' contested ascendent conventions that cast the study of human life in the image of classical physics. Drawing on the intellectual, social, and political legacies of William James' radically empiricist philosophy and radical Social Gospel theology, these three psychologists developed critiques of scientific authority and democratic reality as they worked at the crossroads of the social and the personal in New Deal America. Appropriating models from natural history, they argued for the significance of individuality, contextuality and diversity as scientific concepts as they explored what they envisioned as the nature of democracy, and the democracy of nature.

Author : Mark Pittenger
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 11,15 MB
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299136048

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Reconstructs the history of scientific thought by American socialists, showing how ideas about evolution shaped the national movement and its place in the international movement. Documents the enthusiasm that lured both Marxists and non-Marxists far beyond Darwin and Spencer to a vision of inevitable progress toward socialism. Paper edition (unseen), $24.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR