Dorothea Dix and Jane Addams
From Transcendentalism to Pragmatism in American Social Reform
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10543983 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J David Greenstone (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1979 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 527-559 |
| Publication date | 1979-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Service Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-7961 • E-ISSN: 1537-5404 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/643782 |
| OpenAlex | W2019818832 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
This article examines the contributions of Dorothea Dix and Jane Addams to American social reform in terms of the political and ultimately philosophical commitments of American culture. As social reformers, both Dix and Addams belong to one side of a basic bipolarity in American liberalism, in which their common concern with cultural standards and individual self-development sharply divides them from a more self-regarding concern with maximizing individual and group interests. The differences between the two women reflect Addams's—and the settlement-house movement's— response to the transformation of antebellum America into an industrialized and culturally pluralistic urban society. In particular, these differences closely parallel the transition from the moral certainty and self-reliance of Emerson's Transcendentalism to the collective action and moral inquiry of Dewey's Pragmatism
Certainty · Culture of the United States · Epistemology · Liberalism · Political science · Politics · Pragmatism · Progressive era · Settlement (finance · Social reform · Sociology · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Law · Philosophy · Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education
| Citations per year | 0.35 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2009 - 2022 (14) |
| Highly cited | No |