Robert B Westbrook
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 680812 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Robert B Westbrook |
| PRENOMES | Robert B |
| SOBRENOME | Westbrook |
| ASSINATURA | WESTBROOK R B |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Rochester |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 31 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 94 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1978 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Only the Clothes on Her Back
Journal Article Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States Get access Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States. By Laura F Edwards. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. xviii, 433 pp. $34.95.) Robert Westbrook Robert Westbrook University of Rochester, Rochester, New York Search for other works by this auth…
Creative Democracy—the Task Still before Us
This essay looks to Thomas Jefferson and John Dewey, as well as a contemporary political theorist, Kevin O'Leary, for some guidance in confronting the present crisis in American democratic norms and practices—including that swirling around issues of public health
George Herbert Mead and the Promise of Pragmatist Democracy
Democratic Hope
Pragmatism, as Richard Rorty has said, "names the chief glory of our country's intellectual tradition." In Democratic Hope , Robert B. Westbrook examines the varieties of classical pragmatist thought in the work of John Dewey, William James, and Charles Peirce.
History and Moral Inquiry
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Reconstructing Public Reason
Reconstructing Public Reason. By Eric MacGilvray. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. 266p. $45.00. Eric MacGilvray imaginatively puts philosophical pragmatism to work on the problems of “political justification”—that is, questions about “how we decide, or ought to decide, which ends to pursue as a political community” (p. 2). Above all, he seeks to make pragmatism a part of the engagement of contemporary political theorists with a fam…
The Masterless
The Promise of Pragmatism
Journal Article The Promise of Pragmatism: Modernism and the Crisis of Knowledge and Authority. By John Patrick Diggins. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. xiv, 515 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-266-14878-5.) Get access Robert B. Westbrook Robert B. Westbrook University of Rochester, Rochester, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 1, June 1995, Pages 170–171…
Intellect and Public Life
Journal Article Intellect and Public Life: Essays on the Social History of Academic Intellectuals in the United States. By Thomas Bender. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993. xx, 179 pp. $31.95, ISBN 0-8018-4433-9.) Get access Robert B. Westbrook Robert B. Westbrook University of Rochester, Rochester, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 4, Mar…
The Censored War
Journal Article The Censored War: American Visual Experience during World War Two. By George H. Roeder, Jr. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993. xiv, 189 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-30005723-7.) Get access Robert B. Westbroek Robert B. Westbroek University of Rochester, Rochester, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 2, September 1994, Pages 787–788, https://doi…
The Chicago Pragmatists and American Progressivism
Response to Giles Gunn
I REGRET THAT GILES GUNN FOUND MY REVIEW OF HIS BOOK SNOBBISH and dismissive. I do not, however, believe my review constitutes a screed. A mixed review, no doubt. But I thought I made it clear that Gunn's book is not (roughly) half bad. Gunn charges me with hair-splitting in my efforts to reserve the term for a set of arguments about more or less epistemological questions of knowledge, meaning, and truth. But I think it is important to insist on …
An Innocent Abroad? John Dewey and International Politics
Dewey's refusal to abandon his strong belief in the democratic ideal, which must materialize not via powerful political elites but rather through publicly created institutions and full participation of ordinary citizens, has been grossly misunderstood. Using Dewey's critics' own arguments that purport to show Dewey intentionally, or naively, disregarded the role of power in the relations of communities, Westbrook brings examples to reinforce the …
The End of History
Returning to survey the aftermath of the disastrous confrontation in Waco, Texas between the national state and the Branch Davidian followers of David Koresh, novelist Larry McMurtry noted perceptively that the whole approach of federal agents to these prophetic believers was flawed by the assumption that they would behave predictably. Government may proceed on that assumption, he observed, but faith needn't; and one doesn't have to be much of a …
Philosophy Without Foundations, Politics with Illusions
Of all the major figures in modern American intellectual history John Dewey must be the most intimidating to a biographer. There is, for a start, a peculiar disparity between Dewey's philosophical outlook toward and his philosophy itself. Although Dewey believed that if had meaning it was growth and continuous change, his own philosophy remained essentially changeless in the twentieth century after its first formulation in the late nineteenth cen…
John Dewey and American Democracy
A New Pragmatism
FEW BOOKS HAVE SHAKEN UP CONTEMPORARY INTELLECTUAL LIFE AS much as Richard Rorty's Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (1979), and nothing was more astonishing about that book than its assertion that John Dewey ranked with Wittgenstein and Heidegger as the three most important philosophers of our century. Over the last decade, Rorty has repeated-and on occasion even argued for-this estimate of Dewey's significance while developing a of his own de…
Schools for Industrial Democrats
A century ago John Dewey began to work out his philosophy of education at the University of Chicago. Although historians have subjected this period of Dewey's career to considerable scrutiny, we have neglected the manner in which his thinking was shaped by the fierce conflicts of capital and labor in late nineteenth-century America. Dewey belongs among the radical "social Christians" of the 1880s and 1890s, and at Chicago he sought to give expres…
John Dewey and American Democracy
Journal Article John Dewey and American Democracy. By Robert B. Westbrook. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991. xxii + 570 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8014-2560-3.) Get access John Dewey and American Democracy. By Westbrook Robert B.. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991. xxii + 570 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8014-2560-3.) Paul K. Conkin Paul K. Conkin Vanderbilt University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of…
Professionals and Pragmatists
John Dewey and American Democracy
The Ideal of Democracy
The Origins of American Social Science
Journal Article The Origins of American Social Science. By Dorothy Ross. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. xxii + 508 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-521-35092-1.) Get access Robert Westbrook Robert Westbrook University of Rochester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 2, September 1992, Pages 613–615, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080053 Published: 01 September 1992
Lewis Mumford
Journal Article Lewis Mumford: A Life. By Donald L. Miller. (New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1989. xxiv + 628 pp. $24.95.) Get access Robert Westbrook Robert Westbrook University of Rochester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 2, September 1990, Page 716, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079302 Published: 01 September 1990
I Want a Girl, Just Like the Girl that Married Harry James
sion, a reporter from New York Times made a valiant effort to elicit candidates' opinions on the subject of culture. Perhaps unduly worried about Southern votes, George Bush went on at length about his fondness for country music and Bassmaster magazine. He also revealed that, when he was a young navy pilot in Second World War, he had named four of his planes after his girlfriend, but he denied that he had gone in for pin-ups of Betty Grable or Ri…
John Dewey and American Democracy
The Origins of American Social Science
Journal Article The Origins of American Social Science. By Dorothy Ross. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. xxii + 508 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-521-35092-1.) Get access Robert Westbrook Robert Westbrook University of Rochester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 2, September 1992, Pages 613–615, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080053 Published: 01 September 1992
I Want a Girl, Just Like the Girl that Married Harry James
sion, a reporter from New York Times made a valiant effort to elicit candidates' opinions on the subject of culture. Perhaps unduly worried about Southern votes, George Bush went on at length about his fondness for country music and Bassmaster magazine. He also revealed that, when he was a young navy pilot in Second World War, he had named four of his planes after his girlfriend, but he denied that he had gone in for pin-ups of Betty Grable or Ri…
John Dewey and American Democracy
Journal Article John Dewey and American Democracy. By Robert B. Westbrook. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991. xxii + 570 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8014-2560-3.) Get access John Dewey and American Democracy. By Westbrook Robert B.. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991. xxii + 570 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8014-2560-3.) Paul K. Conkin Paul K. Conkin Vanderbilt University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of…
The Masterless
Tribune of the Technostructure
ideological conflict in the United States in the period between the World Wars. The possibilities and dangers of planning concerned businessmen, politicians, bureaucrats, labor leaders, and intellectuals. The historical literature on this passion for a plan, as Max Eastman termed it, has focused on planning as a solution to the economic problems that beset the nation or as an effort to redefine the relationship between the state and private enter…
The Promise of Pragmatism
Journal Article The Promise of Pragmatism: Modernism and the Crisis of Knowledge and Authority. By John Patrick Diggins. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. xiv, 515 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-266-14878-5.) Get access Robert B. Westbrook Robert B. Westbrook University of Rochester, Rochester, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 1, June 1995, Pages 170–171…
An Innocent Abroad? John Dewey and International Politics
Dewey's refusal to abandon his strong belief in the democratic ideal, which must materialize not via powerful political elites but rather through publicly created institutions and full participation of ordinary citizens, has been grossly misunderstood. Using Dewey's critics' own arguments that purport to show Dewey intentionally, or naively, disregarded the role of power in the relations of communities, Westbrook brings examples to reinforce the …
A New Pragmatism
FEW BOOKS HAVE SHAKEN UP CONTEMPORARY INTELLECTUAL LIFE AS much as Richard Rorty's Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (1979), and nothing was more astonishing about that book than its assertion that John Dewey ranked with Wittgenstein and Heidegger as the three most important philosophers of our century. Over the last decade, Rorty has repeated-and on occasion even argued for-this estimate of Dewey's significance while developing a of his own de…
Abundant Cultural History
Neorepublican Prophets
C. Vann Woodward
Research Article| January 01 1978 C. Vann Woodward: The Southerner as Liberal Realist Robert B. Westbrook Robert B. Westbrook Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1978) 77 (1): 54–71. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-77-1-54 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Robert B. Westbrook; C. Vann Woodward: The Southerner as Liberal Realist. South…
Dewey's Truth
Tribune of the Technostructure
ideological conflict in the United States in the period between the World Wars. The possibilities and dangers of planning concerned businessmen, politicians, bureaucrats, labor leaders, and intellectuals. The historical literature on this passion for a plan, as Max Eastman termed it, has focused on planning as a solution to the economic problems that beset the nation or as an effort to redefine the relationship between the state and private enter…
Neorepublican Prophets
Abundant Cultural History
The Lyrical Left
Journal Article The Lyrical Left: Randolph Bourne, Alfred Stieglitz, and the Origins of Cultural Radicalism in America. By Edward Abrahams. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1986. xv + 265 pp. $20.00.) Get access Robert Westbrook Robert Westbrook University of Rochester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 74, Issue 1, June 1987, Page 209, https://doi.org/10.230…
Lewis Mumford
Journal Article Lewis Mumford: A Life. By Donald L. Miller. (New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1989. xxiv + 628 pp. $24.95.) Get access Robert Westbrook Robert Westbrook University of Rochester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 2, September 1990, Page 716, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079302 Published: 01 September 1990
I Want a Girl, Just Like the Girl that Married Harry James
sion, a reporter from New York Times made a valiant effort to elicit candidates' opinions on the subject of culture. Perhaps unduly worried about Southern votes, George Bush went on at length about his fondness for country music and Bassmaster magazine. He also revealed that, when he was a young navy pilot in Second World War, he had named four of his planes after his girlfriend, but he denied that he had gone in for pin-ups of Betty Grable or Ri…
Schools for Industrial Democrats
A century ago John Dewey began to work out his philosophy of education at the University of Chicago. Although historians have subjected this period of Dewey's career to considerable scrutiny, we have neglected the manner in which his thinking was shaped by the fierce conflicts of capital and labor in late nineteenth-century America. Dewey belongs among the radical "social Christians" of the 1880s and 1890s, and at Chicago he sought to give expres…
John Dewey and American Democracy
Journal Article John Dewey and American Democracy. By Robert B. Westbrook. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991. xxii + 570 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8014-2560-3.) Get access John Dewey and American Democracy. By Westbrook Robert B.. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991. xxii + 570 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8014-2560-3.) Paul K. Conkin Paul K. Conkin Vanderbilt University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of…
Professionals and Pragmatists
John Dewey and American Democracy
The Ideal of Democracy
The Origins of American Social Science
Journal Article The Origins of American Social Science. By Dorothy Ross. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. xxii + 508 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-521-35092-1.) Get access Robert Westbrook Robert Westbrook University of Rochester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 2, September 1992, Pages 613–615, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080053 Published: 01 September 1992
An Innocent Abroad? John Dewey and International Politics
Dewey's refusal to abandon his strong belief in the democratic ideal, which must materialize not via powerful political elites but rather through publicly created institutions and full participation of ordinary citizens, has been grossly misunderstood. Using Dewey's critics' own arguments that purport to show Dewey intentionally, or naively, disregarded the role of power in the relations of communities, Westbrook brings examples to reinforce the …
The End of History
Returning to survey the aftermath of the disastrous confrontation in Waco, Texas between the national state and the Branch Davidian followers of David Koresh, novelist Larry McMurtry noted perceptively that the whole approach of federal agents to these prophetic believers was flawed by the assumption that they would behave predictably. Government may proceed on that assumption, he observed, but faith needn't; and one doesn't have to be much of a …
Philosophy Without Foundations, Politics with Illusions
Of all the major figures in modern American intellectual history John Dewey must be the most intimidating to a biographer. There is, for a start, a peculiar disparity between Dewey's philosophical outlook toward and his philosophy itself. Although Dewey believed that if had meaning it was growth and continuous change, his own philosophy remained essentially changeless in the twentieth century after its first formulation in the late nineteenth cen…
John Dewey and American Democracy
A New Pragmatism
FEW BOOKS HAVE SHAKEN UP CONTEMPORARY INTELLECTUAL LIFE AS much as Richard Rorty's Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (1979), and nothing was more astonishing about that book than its assertion that John Dewey ranked with Wittgenstein and Heidegger as the three most important philosophers of our century. Over the last decade, Rorty has repeated-and on occasion even argued for-this estimate of Dewey's significance while developing a of his own de…
Intellect and Public Life
Journal Article Intellect and Public Life: Essays on the Social History of Academic Intellectuals in the United States. By Thomas Bender. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993. xx, 179 pp. $31.95, ISBN 0-8018-4433-9.) Get access Robert B. Westbrook Robert B. Westbrook University of Rochester, Rochester, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 4, Mar…
The Censored War
Journal Article The Censored War: American Visual Experience during World War Two. By George H. Roeder, Jr. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993. xiv, 189 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-30005723-7.) Get access Robert B. Westbroek Robert B. Westbroek University of Rochester, Rochester, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 2, September 1994, Pages 787–788, https://doi…
The Chicago Pragmatists and American Progressivism
Response to Giles Gunn
I REGRET THAT GILES GUNN FOUND MY REVIEW OF HIS BOOK SNOBBISH and dismissive. I do not, however, believe my review constitutes a screed. A mixed review, no doubt. But I thought I made it clear that Gunn's book is not (roughly) half bad. Gunn charges me with hair-splitting in my efforts to reserve the term for a set of arguments about more or less epistemological questions of knowledge, meaning, and truth. But I think it is important to insist on …
The Masterless
The Promise of Pragmatism
Journal Article The Promise of Pragmatism: Modernism and the Crisis of Knowledge and Authority. By John Patrick Diggins. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. xiv, 515 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-266-14878-5.) Get access Robert B. Westbrook Robert B. Westbrook University of Rochester, Rochester, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 1, June 1995, Pages 170–171…
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