The American Intellectual Tradition (Paperback)

David A. Hollinger

ISBN 10: 019026232X / ISBN 13: 9780190262327

Published by OUP India, New Delhi, 2015

About this Item

Paperback. Revised and updated, the seventh edition of this now standard two-volume anthology brings together some of the most historically significant 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 literary 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. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The American Intellectual Tradition (Paperback)
• Publisher: OUP India, New Delhi
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 019026232X
• ISBN 13: 9780190262327
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Revised and updated, the seventh edition of this now standard two-volume anthology brings together some of the most historically significant 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 literary 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.

About the Author

David A. Hollinger is Preston Hotchkis Professor of History Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. His books include After Cloven Tongues of Fire (2013), Postethnic America: Beyond Multiculturalism (Third Edition, Expanded, 2006), Cosmopolitanism and Solidarity (2006), and Science, Jews, and Secular Culture (1996). He is a former President of the Organization of American Historians and is an elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Charles Capper is Professor of History at Boston University. He is the author or coeditor of several books, including Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life, Vol. 1: The Private Years (OUP, 1992), which won the 1993 Bancroft Prize, and Vol. 2: The Public Years (OUP, 2007); and Transient and Permanent: The Transcendentalist Movement and Its Contexts (1999). He is also a coeditor of Modern Intellectual History.