{"product_id":"a-history-of-american-thought-1860-2000-thinking-the-modern-paperback","title":"A History of American Thought 1860-2000: Thinking the Modern - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDaniel Wickberg\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is a comprehensive overview of the history of modern American thought and examines a wide range of modern thought and thinkers from 1860, when Charles Darwin's \u003ci\u003eOrigin of Species\u003c\/i\u003e was published in the United States, to the end of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe focus of this volume is on the destabilizing effects of modern challenges to notions of fixed order and absolute truths, and the contradictory consequences for philosophical, political, social, and aesthetic thought. The intellectual response to the unprecedented changes of this era produced visions of both liberation from the hierarchies of the past and new forms of control and constraint. One of the central contradictions in modern thought was between biological and cultural ideas of social, psychological, and moral order. This is the first work to provide an interpretive vision of the entire period under consideration. Topics covered include evolutionary thought, philosophical Pragmatism, ideas of race and gender, pluralism and cultural relativism, Cold War Liberalism, science and religion, feminist thought, evolutionary psychology, and the late twentieth-century Culture Wars. Thinkers from William James and Charlotte Perkins Gilman through Judith Butler and Cornel West are analyzed as historical figures.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis volume is an ideal resource for a general audience as well as undergraduate and graduate students in the field of American intellectual history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDaniel Wickberg\u003c\/strong\u003e has taught intellectual history at the University of Texas at Dallas for over 25 years. His primary areas of research are the history of American social thought and historiography. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Senses of Humor: Self and Laughter in Modern America\u003c\/i\u003e (1998).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 314\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.69 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 07, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51750457082144,"sku":"9780367633110","price":90.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/4f8e18ba1354aa45d2ea1ed6ebf4019b.webp?v=1779950705","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/a-history-of-american-thought-1860-2000-thinking-the-modern-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}