A  companion to American thought
By: edited by Richard Wightman Fox and James T. Kloppenberg.
Contributors: Fox, Richard Wightman, 1945-; Kloppenberg, James T.
Series: Blackwell reference
Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Oxford, U.K; Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 804
Subjects: United States -- Intellectual life -- Dictionaries.
Description: This outstanding book assesses the whole sweep of American thought from the colonial era to the present day. Some two hundred and fifty scholars - from history, literature, religion, philosophy, political theory, and the social sciences - have written original and substantial essays on the pivotal topics and figures in the history of American intellectual endeavor and achievement. To these the editors have added several hundred concise biographical entries.

All entries contain suggestions for further reading, and the book is fully cross-referenced and indexed.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: List of concepts: Abortion -- Abstract expressionism -- Academic freedom -- American exceptionalism -- American Revolution -- Ancient Indian history -- Animal -- Anti-Federalists -- Anti-slavery -- Apocalyptic literature -- Architecture -- Armory show -- Ashcan school -- Asian American identity -- Assimilation -- Authority -- Autobiography -- Baseball -- Beat generation -- Behaviorism -- Biblical criticism -- Bill of rights -- Calvinism -- Cartooning -- Catholicism -- Childhood -- Cinema -- Civil War -- Class -- Cold war -- Colleges and universities -- Consensus -- Constitution -- Critical legal studies -- Critical race theory -- Cultural anthropology -- Cultural criticism -- Cultural pluralism and multiculturalism -- Darwinism -- Deconstruction -- Democracy -- Diaries -- Domesticity -- Education -- Enlightenment -- Environmentalism -- Equality -- Ethnicity -- Etiquette -- Evangelicalism -- Expatriation -- Fatherhood -- Femininity -- Feminism -- Feminist jurisprudence -- Folklore -- Frankfurt School -- Freedom -- Freudianism -- Frontier -- Fundamentalism -- Gay and lesbian identities -- Gender -- Great awakening -- Guilt -- Harlem renaissance -- Hegemony -- Heredity -- Holocaust -- Honor -- Hudson River school -- Ideology -- Imperialism and anti-imperialism -- Indian identities -- Indian-white relations -- Indians -- Individualism -- Industrialism -- Intelligence -- Journalism -- Journals of opinion -- Judaism -- Justice -- Language -- Latino and Latina cultures -- Law -- Law and economics -- Legal realism -- Liberal Protestantism -- Liberalism -- Libertarianalism -- Masculinity -- Mass culture -- Medicine -- Middlebrow culture -- Millennialism -- Mission -- Modernism -- Modernization -- Motherhood -- Muckraking -- The Nation -- Naturalism -- Nature -- Neoconservatism -- Neo-Freudianism -- New left -- New literary historicism -- The New Republic -- New York intellectuals -- Objectivity -- Obligation -- Obscenity -- Philosophy -- Piety -- Play -- Political theory -- Pop -- Populism -- Positivism -- Postmodernism -- Pragmatism -- Privacy -- Profession -- Progress -- Progressivism -- Prohibition -- Proletarianism -- proslavery thought -- Psychotherapy -- Publicity -- Punishment -- Puritanism -- Race -- Reading -- Realism -- Regionalism -- Relativism -- Religion -- Representation -- Republicanism -- Responsibility -- Rhetoric -- Rights -- Romantic historians -- Romanticism -- Science -- Scientism and cognitivism -- Scottish common sense realism -- Semiotics -- Shame -- Simplicity -- Social Darwinism -- Social mobility -- Social science -- Socialism -- Society -- Southern agrarianism -- Southern intellectual history -- Spiritualism -- Taylorism -- Technology -- Textuality -- Tolerance -- Tradition -- Transcendentalism -- Translation -- Unitarianism -- Urbanism -- Utopias -- Victorianism -- Vietnam -- Virtue -- Women’s rights -- Work -- World War I -- World War II -- Youth.; title: Also includes over 450 alphabetical biographical entries ranging from Edith Abbott to Richard Wright.