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- catalog abstract ""The rise of corporate capitalism was a cultural revolution as well as an economic event, according to James Livingston. That revolution resides, he argues, in the fundamental reconstruction of selfhood, or subjectivity, that attends the advent of an "age of surplus" under corporate auspices. From this standpoint, consumer culture represents a transition to a society in which identities as well as incomes are not necessarily derived from the possession of productive labor or property. From the same perspective, pragmatism and literary naturalism become ways of accommodating the new forms of solidarity and subjectivity enabled by the emergence of corporate capitalism. So conceived, demonstrates Livingston, they become ways of articulating alternatives to modern, possessive individualism." "Livingston argues accordingly that the flight from pragmatism led by Lewis Mumford was an attempt to refurbish a romantic version of modern, possessive individualism. This attempt still shapes our reading of pragmatism, Livingston claims, and will continue to do so until we understand that William James was not merely a well-meaning middleman between Charles Peirce and John Dewey and that James's pragmatism was both a working model of postmodern subjectivity and a novel critique of capitalism."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog contributor b6510633.
- catalog coverage "United States Civilization 1865-1918.".
- catalog coverage "United States Civilization 1918-1945.".
- catalog coverage "United States Civilization 19th century.".
- catalog coverage "United States Economic conditions 1865-1918.".
- catalog coverage "United States Economic conditions 1918-1945.".
- catalog created "c1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "c1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1994.".
- catalog description ""The rise of corporate capitalism was a cultural revolution as well as an economic event, according to James Livingston. That revolution resides, he argues, in the fundamental reconstruction of selfhood, or subjectivity, that attends the advent of an "age of surplus" under corporate auspices. From this standpoint, consumer culture represents a transition to a society in which identities as well as incomes are not necessarily derived from the possession of productive labor or property. From the same perspective, pragmatism and literary naturalism become ways of accommodating the new forms of solidarity and subjectivity enabled by the emergence of corporate capitalism. So conceived, demonstrates Livingston, they become ways of articulating alternatives to modern, possessive individualism." "Livingston argues accordingly that the flight from pragmatism led by Lewis Mumford was an attempt to refurbish a romantic version of modern, possessive individualism. This attempt still shapes our reading of pragmatism, Livingston claims, and will continue to do so until we understand that William James was not merely a well-meaning middleman between Charles Peirce and John Dewey and that James's pragmatism was both a working model of postmodern subjectivity and a novel critique of capitalism."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "xxiii, 392 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Pragmatism and the political economy of cultural revolution, 1850-1940.".
- catalog identifier "0807821578 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Pragmatism and the political economy of cultural revolution, 1850-1940.".
- catalog isPartOf "Cultural studies of the United States".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "c1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press,".
- catalog relation "Pragmatism and the political economy of cultural revolution, 1850-1940.".
- catalog spatial "United States Civilization 1865-1918.".
- catalog spatial "United States Civilization 1918-1945.".
- catalog spatial "United States Civilization 19th century.".
- catalog spatial "United States Economic conditions 1865-1918.".
- catalog spatial "United States Economic conditions 1918-1945.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "973 20".
- catalog subject "Capitalism United States History.".
- catalog subject "Consumer behavior United States History.".
- catalog subject "E169.1 .L58 1994".
- catalog subject "Industries Social aspects United States History.".
- catalog subject "Pragmatism.".
- catalog title "Pragmatism and the political economy of cultural revolution, 1850-1940 / James Livingston.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".