Pragmatism, Feminism, and Democracy

James Livingston is a Professor of History at Rutgers University. He is the author of Pragmatism and thePolitical Economy of Cultural Revolution and Origins ofthe Federal Reserve System: Money, Class, and CorporateCapitalism.

Acknowledgements Introduction: Attitudes Toward History Part 1. Pragmatism, Feminism, and the Politics of Historiography Chapter 1. Modern Subjectivity and Consumer Culture: The Revenge of New Women The Terms of the Debate Primal Scenes in American Historiography Epistemology of Excess Chapter 2. Fighting the War of Position: The Politics of Pragmatism Pragmatism as a Comic Frame of Acceptance Cultural Criticism and Corporate Capitalism Corporate Capitalism and Cultural Politics Chapter 3. The Strange Career of Social Self From Royce to Wahl to Kojeve Jane Addams, Jessie Taft, and the Social Claim John Dewey on the Self's Determination Chapter 4. Narrative Politics: Richard Rorty at the End of Reform 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 Chapter 5. Hamlet, James, and the Woman Question Reinstating the Vague Father and Son Difference and Equality The Worst Kind of Melancholy Chapter 6. Understanding Our Theories: Pragmatism, Feminism, and the End(s) of Capitalism The Gender of Modernity Nietzsche, Butler, James Marxism in Green, Feminism in Red, Populism in Drag Corporate Personality, Bureaucratic Rationality, and Modern Feminism Afterword Index