Between 1870 and 1920, two generations of European and American
intellectuals created a transatlantic community of philosophical and
political discourse. _Uncertain Victory_, the first comparative study
of ideas and politics in France, Germany, the U.S., and Great Britain
during these fifty years, demonstrates how a number of thinkers from
different traditions converged to create the theoretical foundations
for new programs of social democracy and progressivism. Kloppenberg
studies a wide range of pivotal theorists and activists--including
philosophers such as William James, Wilhelm Dilthey, and T. H. Green,
democratic socialists such as Jean Jaur`es, Walter Rauschenbusch,
Eduard Bernstein, and Beatrice and Sidney Webb, and social theorists
such as John Dewey and Max Weber--as he establishes the connection
between the philosophers' challenges to the traditions of empiricism
and idealism and the activists' opposition to the traditions of
laissez-faire liberalism and revolutionary socialism. By demonstrating
a link between a philosophy of self-conscious uncertainty and a
politics of continuing democratic experimentation, and by highlighting
previously unrecognized similarities among a number of prominent 19th-
and 20th-century thinkers, _Uncertain Victory_ is sure to spur a
reassessment of the relationship between ideas and politics on both
sides of the Atlantic.
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9780195363937
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2020
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Oxford University Press
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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