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9 de jun. de 2023 · American intellectuals and the concept of totalitarianism, 1960–2009. This thesis engages with one of the most influential and misused concepts in American intellectual life, ‘totalitarianism’. As a malleable and powerfully evocative concept, totalitarianism has been frequently mobilised in the service of wide-ranging political ends ...
Died: August 18, 1990. B. F. Skinner was an American behaviorist, psychologist, inventor, author, and social philosopher. Skinner, who taught psychology at Harvard University, is credited with founding a school of thought in psychology called the experimental analysis of behavior. Regarded as a pioneer of modern behaviorism, Skinner was named ...
1 de abr. de 2007 · Intellectual history became a major, recognized subfield of United States history only in the 1950s, midway through the century.Conveniently, in 1957—the exact midpoint between 1907 and 2007—the Mississippi Valley Historical Review (as the Journal of American History was titled until 1964) published John C. Greene's methodological essay, “Objectives and Methods in Intellectual History.”
1 de oct. de 2013 · In Transcending the Talented Tenth, Joy James provocatively examines African American intellectual responses to racism and the role of elitism, sexism and anti-radicalism in black leadership politics throughout history.She begins with Du Bois' construction of "the Talented Tenth" as an elite leadership of race managers and takes us through the lives and work of radical women in the anti ...
3 de jul. de 2019 · Charles S. Johnson, 1893–1956. Charles S. Jonson, circa 1940. Library of Congress. Charles Spurgeon Johnson, 1893–1956, was an American sociologist and first Black president of Fisk University, a historically Black college. Born in Virginia, he earned a Ph.D. in sociology at the University of Chicago, where he studied among the Chicago ...
The American Enlightenment was a period of intellectual and philosophical fervor in the thirteen American colonies in the 18th to 19th century, ... Deism greatly influenced the thought of intellectuals and Founding Fathers, including Adams, Franklin, ...
1 de dic. de 2006 · In striving to understand Tocqueville's role among American intellectuals, it is important to analyze his abiding presence: the treatment of Tocqueville as an “old reliable” supporter of American democracy ever since the publication of Democracy in America and despite the many concerns regarding American social life expressed therein.
