Origins, the dialectic, and the critique of materialism

Author(s)

• DeArmey, Michael H.
• Good, James A.

Bibliographic Information

Origins, the dialectic, and the critique of materialism

with an introduction by Michael H. DeArmey & James A. Good

（History of American thought, . American Hegelianism . The St. Louis Hegelians /edited and introduced by Michael H. DeArmey ; v. 1）

Thoemmes Press, 2001

• : set

Note

Bibliography: p. xxi-xxviii

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

These three volumes make available rare primary source material that should greatly facilitate research on the St Louis Hegelians. The thought and activities of this loosely organized group of philosophers was instrumental in the crucial shift from 19th-century laissez-faire individualism to the institutional liberalism of the Progressive Era, and they influenced intellectuals as diverse as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Bronson Alcott, John Dewey, and Jane Addams. The first volume of this collection focuses on the origins of the movement, the St Louis Hegelian's critique of "brittle individualism", and the "agnostic materialism" of Herbert Spencer. The volume features articles by principal St Louis Hegelians - W.T. Harris and Denton Snider - and includes debates with American and European intellectuals - G.S. Morris, Augusto Vera, Karl Rosenkranz and Franz Hoffman - about the ability of Hegel's dialectic to account adequately for the reality of the individual within the greater whole. The second volume includes essays by Snider, Harris, Rosenkranz, Thomas Davidson and Adolph Kroeger, and focuses on the St Louis Hegelians' philosophical interpretation of American history, especially the Civil unification. Volume three is a collection of the St Louis Hegelians' writings on aesthetics and art history, a crucial element of their philosophy of cultural unification, and includes articles by Henry Conrad Brokmeyer, Morris, Snider, Davidson and William Bryant. As a whole, these volumes demonstrate the St Louis Hegelians' engagement with a wide variety of intellectuals and philosophical issues, and reveal their centrist social and political philosophy. Making an extensive selection of scarce and out of print materials available, this set allows a full assessment of the movement.

Table of Contents

• Volume 1 Part I: The Origin of the Movement Denton Jacques Snider, The St. Louis Movement in Philosophy, Literature, Education, Psychology (St. Louis: Sigma Publishing Co., 1920), 9-15, 31-37 Denton Jacques Snider, A Writer of Books in His Genesis
• Written for and Dedicated to His Pupil-friends Reaching Back in a Line of Fifty Years (St. Louis: Sigma Publishing Co., 1910), 315, 310-311, 325-327, 331-332 Part II: Dialectic, Trendelenburg and the Pantheism Debate W.T. Harris, "To the Reader" Journal of Speculative Philosophy 1 (1867): 1. W.T. Harris, "The Speculative," Journal of Speculative Philosophy 1 (1867): 2-5. W.T. Harris, "The Concrete and the Abstract," Journal of Speculative Philosophy 5 (1871): 1-5. A. E. Kroeger, "The Difference between the Dialectic Method of Hegel and The Synthetic Method of Kant and Fichte," Journal of Speculative Philosophy 6 (1872): 184-187. Augusto Vera, "Trendelenburg as Opponent of Hegel," trans. Anna Brackett, Journal of Speculative Philosophy 7 (1873): 26-32. G.S. Morris, "Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg," The New Englander 33 (1874): 287-336. W.T. Harris, "Trendelenburg and Hegel," Journal of Speculative Philosophy 9 (1875): 70-80. Franz Hoffman, "The Hegelian Philosophy in St. Louis in the United States of North America," Philosophische Monatshefte 7 (1871): 58-63. W.T. Harris, "Theism and Pantheism," Journal of Speculative Philosophy 5 (January 1871): 86-94. Harris, ed., "Correspondence," [Rosenkranz's reply to Hoffman's "The Hegelian Philosophy in St. Louis in the United States of North America"] Journal of Speculative Philosophy 6 (1872): 175-181. Part III: The Critique of Materialism W.T. Harris, "Herbert Spencer," Journal of Speculative Philosophy 1 (1867): 6-22. John Watson, "Hedonism and Utilitarianism," Journal of Speculative Philosophy 10 (1876): 271-290. John Watson, "The Relativity of Knowledge: An Examination of the Doctrine as Held by Mr. Herbert Spencer," Journal of Speculative Philosophy 11 (1877): 19-48. W.T. Harris, "Thoughts on the Basis of Agnosticism,," Journal of Speculative Philosophy 15 (1881): 113-120. John Dewey, "The Metaphysical Assumptions of Materialism," Journal of Speculative Philosophy 16 (April 1882), 208-13. Volume 2 A) Philosophy of History Fairfield, F.G. "Goethe and German Fiction," Journal of Speculative Philosophy 9 (1876). Harris, W.T. "English and German: A Study in the Philosophy of History," Andover Review 6 (December 1886). -. "Philosophic Aspects of History," Proceedings of the American Historical Association (1890). -. "The Movement from Individualism to Cosmopolitanism," NEA Journal of Proceedings and Addresses (1900). -. "Civilization and Higher Education," NEA Journal of Proceedings and Addresses (1901). Hoffman, Franz. "Correspondence," Journal of Speculative Philosophy 6 (1872). Rosenkranz, Karl. "Hegel's Philosophy of History," Journal of Speculative Philosophy 6 (1872). Snider, Denton J. The American State. Saint Louis: n.p. (reprinted from The Westerner), 1874. (64pp) B) Philosophy of Education Blow, Susan. "Introduction," in The Mottoes and Commentaries of Friedrich Froebel's Mother Play. Translated by Susan Blow. International Education Series, Vol. 31. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1895. Davidson, Thomas. "Teaching the Mechanical Arts," Forum 6 (1888). -. "American Democracy as a Religion," International Journal of Ethics 8 (1899). -. "Education as World-Building," Educational

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Details

• NCID: BA52601539
• ISBN:
  • 1855068613
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Bristol
• Pages/Volumes: xxviii, 184 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA50530076