Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Opening the field
  • From hero to social type
  • A poetics of social hegemony
  • The arts of transition: The education of Henry Adams
  • Adams and James
  • William James: The self and politics
  • America and Europe: Locations of sensations and healthy states
  • Philosophizing a social pathology: Agassiz, Darwin; Adams, James
  • The prinicples of psychology
  • War and peace in the global psyche
  • Gertrude Stein and the legitimation of society
  • Indices for an approach to Stein: Language in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
  • How to write
  • Decline in the West: Gertrude Stein's making of Americans
  • A world made of stories