The Worlds of American Intellectual History

Joel Isaac is Associate Professor in the department of the John U. Nef Committee Social Thought at the University of Chicago. His current research focuses on the relations between politics and economics in twentieth-century British and American thought. James Kloppenberg is Charles Warren Professor of American History at Harvard University, , where he teaches European and American intellectual history. He wrote several books on transatlantic politics and ideas from the 16th century to the present, including Toward Democracy: The Struggle for Self-Rule in European and American Thought. Michael O'Brien taught American intellectual and cultural history at the University of Cambridge. His research focused, in particular, on the intellectual history of the American South. Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen is Merle Curti Associate Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research focuses on 19th- and 20th-century US thought and culture in transatlantic perspective.

Introduction: Opening American Thought
James T. Kloppenberg

Part One: Frames
1. What was the American Enlightenment?
Caroline Winterer

2. The "Woman Question" in the Age of Mass Democracy: From Movement History to Problem History
Leslie Butler

3. "We People of Color": Colored Cosmopolitanism and the Borders of Race
Nico Slate

4. Curating the Black Atlantic
Jonathan Holloway

Part Two: Justice
5. The Sins of Slaves and the Slaves of Sin: Toward a History of Moral Agency
Margaret Abruzzo

6. Nationalism and Cosmopolitan Humanity in Mid-Nineteenth-Century American Political Science
Duncan Kelly

7. The Political Origins of Global Justice
Samuel Moyn

Part Three: Philosophy
8. Unstiffening Theory: The Italian Magic Pragmatists and William James
Francesca Bordogna

9. The Longing for Wisdom in Twentieth-Century US Thought
Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen

10. Pain, Analytical Philosophy, and American Intellectual History
Joel Isaac

11. On Lying: Writing Philosophical History after the Enlightenment and after Arendt
Sophia Rosenfeld

Part Four: Secularization
12. Science and Religion in Postwar America
Andrew Jewett

13. Religion within the Bounds of Democracy Alone: Habermas, Rawls, and the Trans-Atlantic Debate over Public Reason
Peter Gordon

14. Christianity and Its American Fate: Where History Interrogates Secularization Theory
David Hollinger

Part Five: Method
15. Paths in the Social History of Ideas
Daniel T. Rodgers

16. Toward a Free-Range Intellectual History
Sarah Igo

17. New Directions, Then and Now
Angus Burgin

Afterword
Michael O'Brien

Index