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General Exam Field List

Professor James T. Kloppenberg

Modern Intellectual History

Introduction. Methodological Questions, Controversies, and Provocations

Gordon, Peter E. “What Is Intellectual History? A Frankly Partisan Introduction to a Frequently Misunderstood Field”

Higham, John, and Paul K. Conkin, eds. New Directions in American Intellectual History. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979.

Kloppenberg, James T. “Thinking Historically: A Manifesto for Pragmatic Hermeneutics,” Modern Intellectual History 9, 1 (April 2012), 201-216.

McMahon, Darrin M., and Samuel Moyn, eds. Rethinking Modern European Intellectual History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.

Moyn, Samuel, and Andrew Sartori, eds. Global Intellectual History. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013.

Scott, Joan W. “The Evidence of Experience.” Critical Inquiry 17, 4 (Summer, 1991), 773-797.

Skinner, Quentin. “Meaning and Understanding in the History of Ideas.” History and Theory 8, 1 (1969), 3-53.

Toews, John. “Intellectual History after the Linguistic Turn: The Autonomy of Meaning and the Irreducibility of Experience.” American Historical Review, 92 (Oct., 1987), 879-907.

1. Epistemological Revolutions

Primary Sources

Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Pure Reason, ed. Paul Guyer and Allen W. Wood [selections: A and B Prefaces, Introduction] (1781)

Immanuel Kant, “What Is Enlightenment?” in Kant’s Political Writings, ed. Hans Reiss, trans. H. B. Nisbet (1784)

G.W.F. Hegel, The Phenomenology of Spirit, trans. A. V. Miller [selections: Preface, Introduction, “Lordship and Bondage”] (1807)

William James, Pragmatism (1907)

Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962)

Secondary Sources

Kloppenberg, James T. “Pragmatism: An Old Name for Some New Ways of Thinking?” Journal of American History 83 (1996), 100-138.

Wood, Allen. Kant. Blackwell Great Minds Series. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2005.

2. Political Thought I: Liberalism and Republicanism

Primary Sources

Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (1835)

Jürgen Habermas, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere (1962)

Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776)

John Rawls, Justice as Fairness (1985)

Secondary Sources

Pitts, Jennifer. A Turn to Empire: The Rise of Imperial Liberalism in Britain and France. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005.

Smith, Rogers M. Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U. S. History. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999.

Wood, Gordon S. The Creation of the American Republic. 1969. Revised Edition. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press 1998.

3. Political Thought II: Social Democracy and Progressivism

Primary Sources

Jane Addams, Twenty Years at Hull House (1910)

Randolph Bourne, War and the Intellectuals (1917)

John Dewey, The Public and Its Problems (1927)

Walter Lippmann, Drift and Mastery (1914)

Secondary Sources

Kloppenberg, James T. Uncertain Victory: Social Democracy and Progressivism in European and American Thought, 1870-1920. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.

Purcell, Edward. The Crisis of Democratic Theory: Scientific Naturalism and the Problem of Value. Lexington, Ky.: The University Press of Kentucky, 1973.

Westbrook, Robert B. John Dewey and American Democracy. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1993.

4. Capitalism and Culture I: Art and Selfhood

Primary Sources

Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944)

John Dewey, Art as Experience (1934)

Paul Goodman, Growing Up Absurd (1960)

Clement Greenberg, “Avant-Garde and Kitsch” (1939)

Dwight Macdonald, “Masscult and Midcult” (1960)

Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899)

Secondary Sources

Breckman, Warren. Marx, The Young Hegelians, and the Origins of Radical Social Theory: Dethroning the Self. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Denning, Michael. The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century. New York: Verso, 1996.

Jay, Martin. The Dialectical Imagination. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973.

Lears, T. J. Jackson. No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture, 1880-1920. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981.

5. Capitalism and Culture II: Morality and Politics

Primary Sources

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Women and Economics (1898)

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Marx-Engels Reader, ed. Robert C. Tucker, Second Edition (1978) [selections: “On the Jewish Question,” “Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844,” “Theses on Feuerbach,” “The German Ideology: Part I,” “Manifesto of the Communist Party,” “The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte,” selections from Capital, Volume I]

C. Wright Mills, The Power Elite (1956)

Raymond Williams, Culture and Society (1958)

Secondary Sources

Brick, Howard. Transcending Capitalism: Visions of a New Society in Modern American Thought. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2006.

Burgin, Angus. The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free Markets since the Depression. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2012.

Rodgers, Daniel T. Age of Fracture. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2011.

6. New Forms of Knowledge: The Rise and Transformation of the Social Sciences

Primary Sources

Émile Durkheim, The Division of Labor in Society (1893)

Émile Durkheim, The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912)

Michel Foucault, The Order of Things (1966)

Claude Lévi-Strauss, The Savage Mind (1962)

Margaret Mead, Coming of Age in Samoa (1928)

Max Weber, “Politics as a Vocation,” and “Science as a Vocation,” in From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology, ed. Girth and Mills (New York: Oxford University Press, 1958)

Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1905)

Secondary Sources

Clifford, James. The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth-Century Literature, Ethnography, Art. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1988.

Ross, Dorothy. The Origins of American Social Science. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

Ringer, Fritz. The Decline of the German Mandarins: The German Academic Community, 1890-1933. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969.

7. Existentialism and Psychoanalysis in Transnational Perspective

Primary Sources

Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951)

Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents (1930)

Martin Heidegger, The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays. New York: Harper Perennial Modern Thought, 2013.

Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morality (1887)

Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism Is a Humanism (1946)

Secondary Sources

Di-Capua, Yoav. “Arab Existentialism: An Invisible Chapter in the Intellectual History of Decolonization.” American Historical Review 117, 4 (October 2012), 1061-1091.

Gordon, Peter E. Continental Divide: Heidegger, Cassirer, Davos. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2010.

El Shakry, Omnia. “The Arabic Freud: The Unconscious and the Modern Subject.” Modern Intellectual History 11, 1 (April 2014), 89-118.

Ratner-Rosenhagen, Jennifer. American Nietzsche: A History of an Icon and His Ideas. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011.

8. Race in American Intellectual Life

Primary Sources

James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time (1963)

W. E. B. Du Bois, Darkwater: Voices from within the Veil (1920)

W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk (1903)

E. Franklin Frazier, Black Bourgeoisie (1957)

Zora Neale Hurston, Mules and Men (1935)

Secondary Sources

Bay, Mia E. The White Image in the Black Mind: African-American Ideas about White People, 1830-1925. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Edwards, Brent Hayes. The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003.

Hollinger, David. Postethnic America: Beyond Multiculturalism. Second Edition. New York: Basic Books, 2000.

Singh, Nikhil Pal. Black Is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005.

9. Gender Constructions and Women’s Intellectual History

Primary Sources

Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1949)

Judith Butler, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1989)

Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique (1963)

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Women and Economics (1898)

Secondary Sources

Bay, Mia E., with Farah J. Griffin, Martha S. Jones, and Barbara D. Savage, eds., Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2015.

Kerber, Linda. Toward an Intellectual History of Women. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1997.

Surkis, Judith. Sexing the Citizen: Morality and Masculinity in France, 1870-1920. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2006.

Williams, Joan. Unbending Gender: Why Family and Work Conflict and What to Do About It. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

10. Colonialism, Decolonization, and the History of Ideas

Primary Sources

Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism (1950)

Dipesh Chakrabarty, Provincializing Europe (2000)

Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks (1952)

C. L. R. James, The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution (1938)

Edward Said, Orientalism (1978)

Secondary Sources

Chibber, Vivek. Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital. New York: Verso, 2013.

Cooper, Frederick. Colonialism in Question: Theory, Knowledge, History. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.

Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999.

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