* = New to this edition
Each part begins with an Introduction.
Preface
Part One: Toward a Secular Culture
* Asa Gray, Selection from "Review of Darwin's On the Origins of Species
" (1860)
* Thomas Wentworth Higginson, "A Plea for Culture" (1867)
Charles Peirce, "The Fixation of Belief" (1877)
William Graham Sumner, "Sociology" (1881)
* Charles Augustus Briggs, Selections from Biblical Study
William Dean Howells, "Pernicious Fiction" (1887)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, "The Solitude of Self" (1892), "Selection from The Women's Bible
(1895)
Frederick Jackson Turner, "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" (1893)
William James, "The Will to Believe" (1897)
Josiah Royce, "The Problem of Job" (1898)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Selection from Women and Economics
(1898)
Henry Adams, "The Dynamo and the Virgin" (1907)
George Santayana, "The Genteel Tradition in American Philosophy" (1913)
Part Two: Social Progress and the Power of the Intellect
Jane Addams, "The Subjective Necessity of Social Settlements" (1892)
Thorstein Veblen, Selection from The Theory of the Leisure Class
(1899)
Woodrow Wilson, "The Ideals of America" (1902)
W.E.B. DuBois, Selection from The Souls of Black Folk
(1903)
William James, "What Pragmatism Means" (1907)
* Walter Lippmann, Selections from Drift and Mastery
(1914)
Randolph Bourne, "Trans-National America" (1916), "Twilight of Idols" (1917)
H.L. Mencken, "Puritanism as a Literary Force" (1919)
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., "Natural Law" (1918)
John Dewey, "Philosophy and Democracy" (1918)
Margaret Mead, Selection from Coming of Age in Samoa
(1928)
John Crowe Ransom, "Reconstructed but Unregenerate" (1930)
Sidney Hook, "Communism Without Dogmas" (1934)
* Thurman Arnold, Selection from Symbols of Government
(1935)
Part Three: To Extend Democracy and to Formulate the Modern
Clement Greenberg, "Avant-Garde and Kitsch" (1939)
* Henry Luce, "The American Century" (1941)
* Henry A. Wallace, Selection from The Age of the Common Man
(1943)
Gunnar Myrdal, Selection from An American Dilemma
Reinhold Niebuhr, Selection from The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness
(1944)
* Albert Einstein, "Atomic War or Peace" (1947)
* Aldo Leopold, Selections from The Sand County Almanac
(1949)
Erik H. Erikson, Selection from Childhood and Society
(1950)
* James Baldwin, "Many Thousands Gone" (1951)
* George Kennan, Selections from American Diplomacy
(1951)
Whittaker Chambers, Selection from Witness
(1952)
Hannah Arendt, "Ideology and Terror" (1953)
John Courtney Murray, Selection from We Hold These Truths
(1960)
Daniel Bell, "The End of Ideology in the West" (1960)
W.W. Rostow, Selection from The Stages of Economic Growth
(1960)
Lionel Trilling, "On the Teaching of Modern Literature" (1961)
* Milton Friedman, Selections from Capitalism and Freedom
(1962)
Part Four: Exploring Diversity and Postmodernity
Thomas S. Kuhn, Selection from The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
(1962)
Martin Luther King, Jr., "Selection from "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" (1963)
Betty Friedan, Selection from The Feminine Mystique
(1963)
Susan Sontag, "Against Interpretation" (1964)
Malcolm X, Selection from "The Ballot or the Bullet" (1964)
* Herbert Marcuse, Selection from One Dimensional Man
(1964)
Noam Chomsky, "The Responsibilities of Intellectuals" (1967)
* Edward Said, Selection from Orientalism
(1978)
Nancy Chodorow, "Gender, Relation, and Difference in Psychoanalytic Perspective" (1979)
Richard Rorty, "Science as Solidarity" (1986)
* Gloria Anzaldua, Selections from Borderlands/La Frontera
(1987)
* Henry Louis Gates, Jr., "The Master's Pieces" (1990)
* Joan Scott, Selections from "The Evidence of Experience" (1991)
* Samuel Huntington, Selection from "The Clash of Civilizations" (1993)
* Carl Sagan, "Antiscience" (1995)
Chronologies
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