James Hoopes
Biographic Data
| ID | 680168 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Hoopes |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Hoopes |
| SIGNATURE | HOOPES J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Babson College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Buddhist economics approach to innovation and capacity building: The case of Siam Hands
The prevailing view of capacity building is summed up in the adage: “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” In other words, simple compassion is counterproductive; utilitarian measures of effectiveness are the best standard for evaluating a social innovation. This paper will explore the alternative possibility that practicing simple compassion as the highest virtue, as did the Buddha, c…
Community Denied: The Wrong Turn of Pragmatic Liberalism
Journal Article Community Denied: The Wrong Turn of Pragmatic Liberalism. By James Hoopes. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998. xii, 192 pp. $32.50, ISBN 0-8014-3500-5.) Get access Jonathan M. Hansen Jonathan M. Hansen Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 4, March 2001, Pages 1541–1542, https://doi.org/10.2307/2674845…
Community Denied: The Wrong Turn of Pragmatic Liberalism
His Glassy Essence: An Autobiography of Charles Sanders Peirce
Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914), the most important and influential of the classical American philosophers, is credited as the inventor of the philosophical school of pragmatism. The scope and significance of his work have had a lasting effect not only in several fields of philosophy but also in mathematics, the history and philosophy of science, and the theory of signs, as well as in literary and cultural studies. Inspired by his friendship a…
Anthony Giddens and Charles Sanders Peirce: History, Theory, and a Way Out of the Linguistic Cul-de-Sac
Stephen L. Collins, James Hoopes, Anthony Giddens and Charles Sanders Peirce: History, Theory, and a Way Out of the Linguistic Cul-de-Sac, Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 56, No. 4 (Oct., 1995), pp. 625-650
The Rites of Assent: Transformations in the Symbolic Construction of America
Journal Article The Rites of Assent: Transformations in the Symbolic Construction of America. By Sacvan Bercovitch. (New York: Routledge, 1993. viii, 424 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-415-90014-X. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-415-90015-8.) Get access James Hoopes James Hoopes Babson College, Babson Park, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 1, June 1994, Page 281…
Science, Community, and the Transformation of American Philosophy, 1860- 1930
Journal Article Science, Community, and the Transformation of American Philosophy, 1860–1930. By Daniel J. Wilson. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990. x + 228 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-226-90143-2) Get access James Hoopes James Hoopes Babson College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 4, March 1993, Pages 1615–1616, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080273 Published: 01 M…
The Origins of American Social Science
Semiotic and American history
Consciousness in New England: From Puritanism and Ideas to Psychoanalysis and Semiotic
Journal Article Consciousness in New England: From Puritanism and Ideas to Psychoanalysis and Semiotic. By James Hoopes. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989. x + 294 pp. $36.00.) Get access James Turner James Turner University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Page 1333, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078281 Published:…
The Puritan-Provincial Vision: Scottish and American Literature in the Nineteenth Century
Journal Article The Puritan-Provincial Vision: Scottish and American Literature in the Nineteenth Century. By Susan Manning. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. xii + 241 pp. $42.50.) Get access James Hoopes James Hoopes Babson College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 2, September 1991, Pages 673–674, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079594 Published: 01 Septem…
Consciousness in New England: From Puritanism and Ideas to Psychoanalysis and Semiotic
Time Capsule
The Philosophical Theology of Jonathan Edwards. Sang Hyun Lee
Consciousness in New England: From Puritanism and Ideas to Psychoanalysis and Semiotic
Primitivists and Puritans
Prodigal Sons: The New York Intellectuals and Their World
herd of independent minds, Harold Roseberg once labelled his fellow intellectuals. They were, and are, as this book shows, a special and fascinating group, including literary critics like Lionel Trilling, Alfred Kazin, Irving Howe, Leslie Fiedler, Philip Rahv, and William Phillips; social scientists like Nathan Glazer; art critics and historians Clement Greenberg, Harold Rrosenberg, and Meyer Schapiro; novelist Saul Bellow; and political journali…
William James: His Life and Thought . Gerald E. Myers
The Men Nobody Knows
Jonathan Edwards's Religious Psychology
Journal Article Jonathan Edwards's Religious Psychology Get access James Hoopes James Hoopes associate professor of history Babson College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 69, Issue 4, March 1983, Pages 849–865, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901193 Published: 01 March 1983
Polemical Palefaces and Genteel Redskins: The Debate Over American Culture and the Origins of the American Studies Movement
Constance Rourke and American Culture . Joan Shelley Rubin
From Memory to History: Using Oral Sources in Local Historical Research
Journal Article From Memory to History: Using Oral Sources in Local Historical Research. By Barbara Allen and William Lynwood Montell. (Nashville: American and People Studying People: The Human Element in Fieldwork. By Robert A. Georges and Michael O. Jones. (Berkeley: University; Oral History: An Introduction for Students. By James Hoopes. (Chapel Hill: Get access Ronald J. Grele Ronald J. Grele University of California, Los Angeles Search for o…
Art as History: Perry Miller's New England Mind
in the past few decades the idea that history is a literary art has dropped from the status of platitude to contention. Many, hearing Miller spoken of as an artist, probably feel confirmed in their already established opinion that his work is too creative, too made up to be good history. For his reputation as historian, if not as artist, has been declining.2 Yet, although his massively inclusive New England Mind has been corrected and supplemente…
Oral History: An Introduction for Students
The author, a noted historian, was a member of Walter Prescott Webb's first class on the American frontier.His book presents a very lively highly documented account of frontier life including marriage customs and sex
A Buddhist economics approach to innovation and capacity building: The case of Siam Hands
The prevailing view of capacity building is summed up in the adage: “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” In other words, simple compassion is counterproductive; utilitarian measures of effectiveness are the best standard for evaluating a social innovation. This paper will explore the alternative possibility that practicing simple compassion as the highest virtue, as did the Buddha, c…
Anthony Giddens and Charles Sanders Peirce: History, Theory, and a Way Out of the Linguistic Cul-de-Sac
Stephen L. Collins, James Hoopes, Anthony Giddens and Charles Sanders Peirce: History, Theory, and a Way Out of the Linguistic Cul-de-Sac, Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 56, No. 4 (Oct., 1995), pp. 625-650
Consciousness in New England: From Puritanism and Ideas to Psychoanalysis and Semiotic
Journal Article Consciousness in New England: From Puritanism and Ideas to Psychoanalysis and Semiotic. By James Hoopes. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989. x + 294 pp. $36.00.) Get access James Turner James Turner University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Page 1333, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078281 Published:…
Art as History: Perry Miller's New England Mind
in the past few decades the idea that history is a literary art has dropped from the status of platitude to contention. Many, hearing Miller spoken of as an artist, probably feel confirmed in their already established opinion that his work is too creative, too made up to be good history. For his reputation as historian, if not as artist, has been declining.2 Yet, although his massively inclusive New England Mind has been corrected and supplemente…
Van Wyck Brooks: In Search of American Culture
The Spiritual New Englander
Van Wyck Brooks: In Search of American Culture
Journal Article Van Wyck Brooks: In Search of American Culture. By James Hoopes. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1977. xviii + 346 pp. Illustrations, notes, note on sources, and index. $15.00.) Get access J. David Hoeveler, Jr. J. David Hoeveler, Jr. University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 4, March 1978, Pages 1148–1149, …
Van Wyck Brooks: In Search of American Culture
Modernist Criticism and Transcendental Literature
MODERNIST literary criticism has been a diffuse movement, difficult to define, but its lowest common denominator might be described by its adherents as a single-minded focus on the text, and by its opponents as a dissociation of literature from life. The opponents, by their assertion that modernist criticism has divorced literature from life, have usually meant two things: one of them obviously but tritely correct, and the other important but dif…
Constance Rourke and American Culture . Joan Shelley Rubin
From Memory to History: Using Oral Sources in Local Historical Research
Journal Article From Memory to History: Using Oral Sources in Local Historical Research. By Barbara Allen and William Lynwood Montell. (Nashville: American and People Studying People: The Human Element in Fieldwork. By Robert A. Georges and Michael O. Jones. (Berkeley: University; Oral History: An Introduction for Students. By James Hoopes. (Chapel Hill: Get access Ronald J. Grele Ronald J. Grele University of California, Los Angeles Search for o…
Art as History: Perry Miller's New England Mind
in the past few decades the idea that history is a literary art has dropped from the status of platitude to contention. Many, hearing Miller spoken of as an artist, probably feel confirmed in their already established opinion that his work is too creative, too made up to be good history. For his reputation as historian, if not as artist, has been declining.2 Yet, although his massively inclusive New England Mind has been corrected and supplemente…
Oral History: An Introduction for Students
The author, a noted historian, was a member of Walter Prescott Webb's first class on the American frontier.His book presents a very lively highly documented account of frontier life including marriage customs and sex
Jonathan Edwards's Religious Psychology
Journal Article Jonathan Edwards's Religious Psychology Get access James Hoopes James Hoopes associate professor of history Babson College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 69, Issue 4, March 1983, Pages 849–865, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901193 Published: 01 March 1983
Polemical Palefaces and Genteel Redskins: The Debate Over American Culture and the Origins of the American Studies Movement
The Men Nobody Knows
William James: His Life and Thought . Gerald E. Myers
Primitivists and Puritans
Prodigal Sons: The New York Intellectuals and Their World
herd of independent minds, Harold Roseberg once labelled his fellow intellectuals. They were, and are, as this book shows, a special and fascinating group, including literary critics like Lionel Trilling, Alfred Kazin, Irving Howe, Leslie Fiedler, Philip Rahv, and William Phillips; social scientists like Nathan Glazer; art critics and historians Clement Greenberg, Harold Rrosenberg, and Meyer Schapiro; novelist Saul Bellow; and political journali…
Time Capsule
The Philosophical Theology of Jonathan Edwards. Sang Hyun Lee
Consciousness in New England: From Puritanism and Ideas to Psychoanalysis and Semiotic
Semiotic and American history
Consciousness in New England: From Puritanism and Ideas to Psychoanalysis and Semiotic
Journal Article Consciousness in New England: From Puritanism and Ideas to Psychoanalysis and Semiotic. By James Hoopes. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989. x + 294 pp. $36.00.) Get access James Turner James Turner University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Page 1333, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078281 Published:…
The Puritan-Provincial Vision: Scottish and American Literature in the Nineteenth Century
Journal Article The Puritan-Provincial Vision: Scottish and American Literature in the Nineteenth Century. By Susan Manning. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. xii + 241 pp. $42.50.) Get access James Hoopes James Hoopes Babson College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 2, September 1991, Pages 673–674, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079594 Published: 01 Septem…
Consciousness in New England: From Puritanism and Ideas to Psychoanalysis and Semiotic
The Origins of American Social Science
Science, Community, and the Transformation of American Philosophy, 1860- 1930
Journal Article Science, Community, and the Transformation of American Philosophy, 1860–1930. By Daniel J. Wilson. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990. x + 228 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-226-90143-2) Get access James Hoopes James Hoopes Babson College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 4, March 1993, Pages 1615–1616, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080273 Published: 01 M…
The Rites of Assent: Transformations in the Symbolic Construction of America
Journal Article The Rites of Assent: Transformations in the Symbolic Construction of America. By Sacvan Bercovitch. (New York: Routledge, 1993. viii, 424 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-415-90014-X. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-415-90015-8.) Get access James Hoopes James Hoopes Babson College, Babson Park, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 1, June 1994, Page 281…
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