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oapen-20.500.12657-759072024-03-28T09:36:56Z Jane Addams's Evolutionary Theorizing Fischer, Marilyn jane addams, socialism, socialist, united states of america, american history, usa, settlement activist, activism, reformer, social worker, sociology, public administrator, suffrage, womens rights, world peace, hull house, civil liberties union, philosophy, ethics, morality, pragmatism, deliberation, democracy, 19th century, evolution, immigration, science, morals, ethical considerations In Jane Addams’s Evolutionary Theorizing, Marilyn Fischer advances the bold and original claim that Addams’s reasoning in her first book, Democracy and Social Ethics, is thoroughly evolutionary. While Democracy and Social Ethics, a foundational text of classical American pragmatism, is praised for advancing a sensitive and sophisticated method of ethical deliberation, Fischer is the first to explore its intellectual roots. Examining essays Addams wrote in the 1890s and showing how they were revised for Democracy and Social Ethics, Fischer draws from philosophy, history, literature, rhetoric, and more to uncover the array of social evolutionary thought Addams engaged with in her texts—from British socialist writings on the evolution of democracy to British and German anthropological accounts of the evolution of morality. By excavating Addams’s evolutionary reasoning and rhetorical strategies, Fischer reveals the depth, subtlety, and richness of Addams’s thought. 2023-08-30T08:24:26Z 2023-08-30T08:24:26Z 2019 book 9780226631325 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/75907 eng application/pdf application/epub+zip Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9780226631462.pdf 9780226631462.epub University of Chicago Press 10.7208/chicago/9780226631462.001.0001 10.7208/chicago/9780226631462.001.0001 9ff930ac-8023-4fa3-80ee-d7b1cb3cd84f 9780226631325 277 open access
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In Jane Addams’s Evolutionary Theorizing, Marilyn Fischer advances the bold and original claim that Addams’s reasoning in her first book, Democracy and Social Ethics, is thoroughly evolutionary. While Democracy and Social Ethics, a foundational text of classical American pragmatism, is praised for advancing a sensitive and sophisticated method of ethical deliberation, Fischer is the first to explore its intellectual roots.
Examining essays Addams wrote in the 1890s and showing how they were revised for Democracy and Social Ethics, Fischer draws from philosophy, history, literature, rhetoric, and more to uncover the array of social evolutionary thought Addams engaged with in her texts—from British socialist writings on the evolution of democracy to British and German anthropological accounts of the evolution of morality. By excavating Addams’s evolutionary reasoning and rhetorical strategies, Fischer reveals the depth, subtlety, and richness of Addams’s thought.
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