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. KloppenbergPart One: Frames1. What was the American Enlightenment?Caroline Winterer2. The "Woman Question" in the Age of Mass Democracy: From Movement History to Problem HistoryLeslie Butler3. "We People of Color": Colored Cosmopolitanism and the Borders of RaceNico Slate4. Curating the Black AtlanticJonathan HollowayPart Two: Justice5. The Sins of Slaves and the Slaves of Sin: Toward a History of Moral AgencyMargaret Abruzzo6. Nationalism and Cosmopolitan Humanity in Mid-Nineteenth-Century American Political ScienceDuncan Kelly7. The Political Origins of Global JusticeSamuel MoynPart Three: Philosophy8. Unstiffening Theory: The Italian Magic Pragmatists and William JamesFrancesca Bordogna9. The Longing for Wisdom in Twentieth-Century US ThoughtJennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen10. Pain, Analytical Philosophy, and American Intellectual HistoryJoel Isaac11. On Lying: Writing Philosophical History after the Enlightenment and after ArendtSophia RosenfeldPart Four: Secularization12. Science and Religion in Postwar America Andrew Jewett13. Religion within the Bounds of Democracy Alone: Habermas, Rawls, and the Trans-Atlantic Debate over Public ReasonPeter Gordon14. Christianity and Its American Fate: Where History Interrogates Secularization Theory David HollingerPart Five: Method 15. Paths in the Social History of IdeasDaniel T. Rodgers16. Toward a Free-Range Intellectual HistorySarah Igo17. New Directions, Then and Now Angus BurginAfterwordMichael O'BrienIndex

will help you think better about the history of thinking, both in the United States itself and in a world still very much influenced, for better or for worse, by the ideological -- and ideational -- formations of the American intellectual landscape.