Trygve Throntveit
Biographic Data
| ID | 2362095 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Trygve Throntveit |
| GIVEN NAMES | Trygve |
| FAMILY NAME | Throntveit |
| SIGNATURE | THRONTVEIT T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2628-5740 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Ideology in (the study of) US foreign relations, Joseph Fletcher Prize Forum
Notes1 See especially the chapters by Coates, Palen, Haberski, Suri, and Von Eschen.2 See especially the chapters by Krutz, Umoren, and McAlister.Additional informationNotes on contributorsTrygve ThrontveitTrygve Throntveit is Director of Strategic Partnership at the Minnesota Humanities Center, Global Fellow for History and Public Policy at the Woodrow Wilson Center, and Co-Founder and Director of the Institute for Puiblic Life and Work. Email: …
Introduction to the Special Issue
Thorstein Veblen, Bard of Democracy
Few remember Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929) as a connoisseur of beauty or champion of beauty’s importance to an institutionally modern and technologically sophisticated society. Similarly few credit Veblen with any constructive theory of politics. Yet Veblen’s conception of the beautiful, his account of its role in human cultural evolution, and his critique of its perversion in the industrialized societies of the nineteenth and early twentieth cent…
Introduction
When I first took over editorship of The Good Society in 2016, I was excited to maintain the journal’s reputation as a forum for sophisticated political theory while also expanding its focus to include the major preoccupations of my own career. One of those preoccupations was with my professional location in the field of education, and higher education particularly, during a time of political, social, and cultural crisis. Another was my long-term…
Power without Victory
Philosophical Pragmatism and the Constitutional Watershed of 1912
Journal Article Philosophical Pragmatism and the Constitutional Watershed of 1912 Get access Trygve Throntveit Trygve Throntveit TRYGVE THRONTVEIT is a research fellow at the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding, Dartmouth College. This article draws on research from each of his two book projects: William James and the Quest for an Ethical Republic and Power without Victory: Woodrow Wilson and the American Internationalist Exp…
The Fable of the Fourteen Points
For decades, scholars have turned to Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points address of January 8, 1918, to explain his vision for a new international order after World War I. And for decades, one particular phrase has been closely linked to that vision: "self-determination." The phrase, however, appears nowhere in Wilson's address. Moreover, it is often shorthand for "national self-determination," connoting an ethno-nationalist political ideal Wilson n…
Leading Them to the Promised Land
Journal Article Leading Them to the Promised Land: Woodrow Wilson, Covenant Theology, and the Mexican Revolution, 1913–1915 Get access Leading Them to the Promised Land: Woodrow Wilson, Covenant Theology, and the Mexican Revolution, 1913–1915. By Mark Benbow. (Kent: Kent State University Press, 2010. xiv, 204 pp. $49.00, ISBN978-1-60635-025-6.) Trygve Throntveit Trygve Throntveit Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts Search for other works …
William James's Ethical Republic
William James's Ethical Republic Trygve Throntveit For William James (1842–1910), all philosophical problems were ultimately ethical. In Pragmatism (1907), James invoked the logical theory of his friend Charles Peirce to argue that the "meaning" of any belief consisted solely in "what conduct it is fitted to produce." There was "no difference in abstract truth," he elaborated, "that doesn't express itself in a difference in concrete fact and in c…
The Will to Behold
No philistine, Thorstein Veblen thought humankind's innate impulse to imbue experience with aesthetic unity advanced all knowledge, and that the most beautiful objects, ideas, and actions met a standard of communal benefit reflecting humanity's naturally selected sociability. Though German idealism was an early influence, it clashed with Veblen's historicist critique of Western institutions, and it was William James's psychology that refined his …
The Will to Behold
No philistine, Thorstein Veblen thought humankind's innate impulse to imbue experience with aesthetic unity advanced all knowledge, and that the most beautiful objects, ideas, and actions met a standard of communal benefit reflecting humanity's naturally selected sociability. Though German idealism was an early influence, it clashed with Veblen's historicist critique of Western institutions, and it was William James's psychology that refined his …
The Will to Behold
No philistine, Thorstein Veblen thought humankind's innate impulse to imbue experience with aesthetic unity advanced all knowledge, and that the most beautiful objects, ideas, and actions met a standard of communal benefit reflecting humanity's naturally selected sociability. Though German idealism was an early influence, it clashed with Veblen's historicist critique of Western institutions, and it was William James's psychology that refined his …
The Fable of the Fourteen Points
For decades, scholars have turned to Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points address of January 8, 1918, to explain his vision for a new international order after World War I. And for decades, one particular phrase has been closely linked to that vision: "self-determination." The phrase, however, appears nowhere in Wilson's address. Moreover, it is often shorthand for "national self-determination," connoting an ethno-nationalist political ideal Wilson n…
Leading Them to the Promised Land
Journal Article Leading Them to the Promised Land: Woodrow Wilson, Covenant Theology, and the Mexican Revolution, 1913–1915 Get access Leading Them to the Promised Land: Woodrow Wilson, Covenant Theology, and the Mexican Revolution, 1913–1915. By Mark Benbow. (Kent: Kent State University Press, 2010. xiv, 204 pp. $49.00, ISBN978-1-60635-025-6.) Trygve Throntveit Trygve Throntveit Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts Search for other works …
William James's Ethical Republic
William James's Ethical Republic Trygve Throntveit For William James (1842–1910), all philosophical problems were ultimately ethical. In Pragmatism (1907), James invoked the logical theory of his friend Charles Peirce to argue that the "meaning" of any belief consisted solely in "what conduct it is fitted to produce." There was "no difference in abstract truth," he elaborated, "that doesn't express itself in a difference in concrete fact and in c…
Philosophical Pragmatism and the Constitutional Watershed of 1912
Journal Article Philosophical Pragmatism and the Constitutional Watershed of 1912 Get access Trygve Throntveit Trygve Throntveit TRYGVE THRONTVEIT is a research fellow at the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding, Dartmouth College. This article draws on research from each of his two book projects: William James and the Quest for an Ethical Republic and Power without Victory: Woodrow Wilson and the American Internationalist Exp…
Power without Victory
Thorstein Veblen, Bard of Democracy
Few remember Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929) as a connoisseur of beauty or champion of beauty’s importance to an institutionally modern and technologically sophisticated society. Similarly few credit Veblen with any constructive theory of politics. Yet Veblen’s conception of the beautiful, his account of its role in human cultural evolution, and his critique of its perversion in the industrialized societies of the nineteenth and early twentieth cent…
Introduction
When I first took over editorship of The Good Society in 2016, I was excited to maintain the journal’s reputation as a forum for sophisticated political theory while also expanding its focus to include the major preoccupations of my own career. One of those preoccupations was with my professional location in the field of education, and higher education particularly, during a time of political, social, and cultural crisis. Another was my long-term…
Ideology in (the study of) US foreign relations, Joseph Fletcher Prize Forum
Notes1 See especially the chapters by Coates, Palen, Haberski, Suri, and Von Eschen.2 See especially the chapters by Krutz, Umoren, and McAlister.Additional informationNotes on contributorsTrygve ThrontveitTrygve Throntveit is Director of Strategic Partnership at the Minnesota Humanities Center, Global Fellow for History and Public Policy at the Woodrow Wilson Center, and Co-Founder and Director of the Institute for Puiblic Life and Work. Email: …
Introduction to the Special Issue
Political science (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Environmental ethics (3 works) · Pragmatism (3 works)