The Soul's Economy: Market Society and Selfhood in American Thought, 1820-1920Jeffrey P. Sklansky Univ of North Carolina Press, 2002 - 313 pages Tracing a seismic shift in American social thought, Jeffrey Sklansky offers a new synthesis of the intellectual transformation entailed in the rise of industrial capitalism. For a century after Independence, the dominant American understanding of selfh |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Political Economy in Revolutionary America | 13 |
Transcendental Psychology in Antebellum New England Ralph Waldo Emerson Horace Bushnell and Margaret Fuller | 33 |
Antebellum Origins of American Sociology Henry C Carey George Fitzhugh and Henry Hughes | 73 |
The Postbellum Crisis of Political Economy Henry George and William Graham Sumner | 105 |
The New Psychology of the Gilded Age William James John Dewey and G Stanley Hall | 137 |
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