Culture and Democracy in the United StatesIn his new introduction, Whitfield sets the scene of the early twentieth century to show what inspired Horace Kallen to write this book. He delves deeply into his background, discussing the influences on Kallen's life and work. Whitfield also examines the many changes that have occurred since Culture and Democracy in the United States was first written, and reveals that many of the ideas espoused by Kallen have become reality. |
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User Review - José-antonio Orosco - GoodreadsKallen is a much underrated philosopher but he was a student of Josiah Royce and William James at Harvard. He was friends with Alain Locke and is usually credited with coming up with the idea of "cultural pluralism", the forerunner of our modern idea of multiculturalism. Read full review
Contents
| ix | |
PostscriptCulture and the Ku Klux | 1 |
A Meaning of Americanism | 36 |
Democracy versus the MeltingPot | 59 |
Americanization and the Cultural | 118 |
The Newest Reaction | 225 |
America and the Life of Reason | 247 |
Humanism and the Industrial Age | 301 |
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Page xvii - Men may change their clothes, their politics, their wives, their religions, their philosophies, to a greater or lesser extent: they cannot change their grandfathers.
References to this book
Multicultural Citizenship: A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights Will Kymlicka No preview available - 1996 |
Bibliographic information
| Title | Culture and Democracy in the United States Studies in Ethnicity |
| Author | Horace Meyer Kallen |
| Contributor | Professor Stephen J Whitfield |
| Publisher | Transaction Publishers, 1924 |
| ISBN | 1412821088, 9781412821087 |
| Length | 339 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / United States / General Political Science / American Government / General |
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