Modernist Impulses in the Human Sciences, 1870-1930

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These essays examine modernism in the human sciences and adjacent areas of philosophy and natural science. Among the contributors, David Hollinger expands his important work on the cognitive/aesthetic divide to include postmodernism. Richard Rorty offers a significant revision of his previous treatment of John Dewey. Theodore Porter identifies the central importance of "descriptionism" for the epistemology and politics of the human sciences. Dorothy Ross extends her analysis of the affinities between exceptionalist historical consciousness, social science and modernist sensibility in the United States. Jan Goldstein finds the origins of psychological modernism to lie not in a late 19th-century revolt against positivism, but rather in the positivist psychologies of early 19th-century France. Philip Pauly draws a striking portrait of the likeness between turn-of-the-century American biologists and modernist European artists. The authors conclude that the once unique and revolutionary configurations of modernism now appear to have been less singular and sudden, for their roots are embedded in the long-standing processes of modernity and national culture.

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Preface
List of Contributors
Introduction: Modernism Reconsidered	p. 1
The Knower and the Artificer, with Postscript 1993	p. 26
Dewey between Hegel and Darwin	p. 54
Democracy and Disenchantment: From Weber and Dewey to Habermas and Rorty	p. 69
Knowing Ourselves: Literary Art versus Social Science	p. 91
The Death of the Object: Fin de siecle Philosophy of Physics	p. 128
On Highest Authority: The Literary Critic and Other Aviators in Early Twentieth-Century Britain	p. 152
Modernist Social Science in the Land of the New / Old	p. 171
The Advent of Psychological Modernism in France: An Alternate Narrative	p. 190
Mead's Voices: Imitation as Foundation; or, the Struggle against Mimesis	p. 210
Darwinism and Modernism: Genetics, Palaeontology, and the Challenge to Progressionism, 1880-1930	p. 236
Biology as Social Theory: The Bifurcation of Social Biology and Sociology in Germany, circa 1900	p. 255
Modernist Practice in American Biology	p. 272
Producers, Brokers, and Users of Knowledge: The Institutional Matrix	p. 290
Notes	p. 309
Index	p. 371
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