Apostle of Human Progress : Lester Frank Ward and American Political Thought, 1841-1913 (American Intellectual Culture)

Rafferty, Edward C.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers（2003/06発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 376 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780742522169
• DDC分類 301.0973

Full Description

Although Lester Frank Ward's accomplishments are not as well known today, he is considered the father of American Sociology and his work profoundly influenced such important thinkers as Thorstein Veblen, John Dewey, Edward Ross, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman. In Apostle of Human Progress, Edward C. Rafferty presents the first full scale intellectual portrait of this important public thinker. Rafferty shows how Ward's thought laid the foundations for the modern administrative state and explores his contributions to twentieth century American liberalism. Ideal for anyone interested in the history of American intellectuals and ideas.

Contents

Chapter 1 Acknowledgments Chapter 2 Introduction: A Life Apart From Circumstantial Things Chapter 3 Self-Made Men, 1841-1862 Chapter 4 An Equal Chance in the Race of Life, 1861-1870 Chapter 5 The Land of Birds and Flowers, 1870-1879 Chapter 6 Restless Skepticism, 1880-1883 Chapter 7 A True National Philosophy, 1883-1887 Chapter 8 The Great Social Problem, 1886-1893 Chapter 9 Spencer-Smashing at Washington, 1894-1900 Chapter 10 Gulliver Among the Lilliputians, 1900-1913 Chapter 11 Conclusion: Glimpses of the Cosmos