The worlds of American intellectual history / edited by Joel Isaac, James T. Kloppenberg, Michael O'Brien, Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: opening American thought / James T. Kloppenberg -- Part I. Frames -- What was the American enlightenment? / Caroline Winterer -- The "woman question" in the age of mass democracy: from movement history to problem history / Leslie Butler -- "We people of color": colored cosmopolitanism and the borders of race / Nico Slate -- Curating the Black atlantic / Jonathan Holloway -- Part II. Justice -- The sins of slaves and the slaves of sin: toward a history of moral agency / Margaret Abruzzo -- Nationalism and cosmopolitan humanity in mid-nineteenth-century American political science / Duncan Kelly -- The political origins of global justice / Samuel Moyn -- Part III. Philosophy -- Unstiffening theory: the Italian magic pragmatists and William James / Francesca Bordogna -- The longing for wisdom in twentieth-century US thought / Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen -- Pain, analytical philosophy, and American intellectual history / Joel Isaac -- On lying: writing philosophical history after the enlightenment and after Arendt / Sophia Rosenfeld -- Part IV. Secularization -- Science and religion in postwar America / Andrew Jewett -- Religion within the bounds of democracy alone: Habermas, Rawls, and the trans-Atlantic debate over public reason / Peter Gordon -- Christianity and its American fate: where history interrogates secularization theory / David Hollinger -- Part V. Method -- Paths in the social history of ideas / Daniel T. Rodgers -- Toward a free-range intellectual history / Sarah Igo -- New directions, then and now / Angus Burgin -- Afterword / Michael O'Brien.

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The Worlds of American Intellectual History follows American thinkers and their ideas as they have crossed national, institutional, and intellectual boundaries. The volume explores ways in which American ideas have circulated in different cultures. It also examines the multiple sites--from social movements, museums, and courtrooms to popular and scholarly books and periodicals--in which people have articulated and deployed ideas within and beyond the borders of the United States.

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