HISTORY

 

ANCIENT THOUGHT (c.700 BCE-300 CE):

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Classical Literature

 

MEDIEVAL THOUGHT (c.300-c.1400):

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Medieval Literature

 

RENAISSANCE THOUGHT (c.1400-c.1600):

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Renaissance Literature

 

EARLY MODERN THOUGHT (c.1600-c.1785):

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Neoclassical Literature

 

NINETEENTH CENTURY THOUGHT:

bullet Romanticism (c.1785-1830):
bullet Romantic Literature
bullet Mid-Century & Fin de Siècle (1830-1900) Thought:
bullet 'Victorian' Literature

 

TWENTIETH CENTURY THOUGHT:

bullet Analytic Philosophy
bullet Continental Theory:
bullet Idealism
bullet Marxism
bullet Phenomenology, Existentialism, Hermeneutics
bullet Psychoanalysis
bullet (Post-)Structuralisms:
bullet Deconstruction
bullet Deleuzean Theory
bullet Dialogism (Bakhtin Circle)
bullet Foucauldian Discourse Theory
bullet Semiology / Structuralism
bullet Structuralist Marxism
bullet Structuralist Psychoanalysis
bullet Feminist Theory
bullet Modernism, Myth & New Criticism
bullet Post-colonial Theory
bullet Pragmatism
 
bullet Twentieth Century Literature

 

REGIONS

 

AFRICAN AND AFRICAN DIASPORIC THOUGHT:

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Literature

 

ASIAN THOUGHT:

bullet Central Asia
bullet East Asian Thought:
bullet Literature
bullet South Asian Thought:
bullet Literature
bullet South-East Asia

 

AUSTRALASIAN THOUGHT:

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Literature

 

CANADIAN THOUGHT:

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Literature

 

CARIBBEAN THOUGHT:

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Literature

 

EUROPEAN THOUGHT:

bullet Central Europe
bullet Eastern Europe:
bullet Russia:
bullet Literature
bullet Northern Europe:
bullet Literature
bullet Southern Europe:
bullet Greece:
bullet Literature
bullet Italy:
bullet Literature
bullet Spain:
bullet Literature
bullet Western Europe:
bullet France:
bullet Literature
bullet Germany:
bullet Literature
bullet UK and Eire:
bullet Literature

 

LATIN AMERICAN THOUGHT:

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Literature

 

MIDDLE EASTERN THOUGHT:

bullet Arabic/Islamic Thought:
bullet Literature
bullet Israeli/Jewish Thought:
bullet Literature

 

USA: AMERICAN THOUGHT:

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Literature

bullet African American Thought:
bullet Literature
bullet Native American Thought

 

TOPICS

 

ARTS:

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Architecture

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Film

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Literature:

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Audience

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Author

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Literary Form & Genre:

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Drama

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Poetry

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Prose

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Literary History, Intertextuality, Canonicity

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Metaliterature

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Representation

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Music

 

BEING

 

COMMUNICATION:

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Linguistics, Philosophy of Language, & Logic

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Rhetoric, Discourse Theory, & Argumentation Theory

 

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Language and Literature

 

EDUCATION

 

HISTORY

 

THE HUMAN BEING (BODY, MIND, SELF):

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Philosophy of Mind & Cognitive Science

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Psychology

 

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Gender

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Race

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Sexuality

 

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Literature, the Mind & the Self

 

KNOWLEDGE

 

METAPHILOSOPHY / METATHEORY

 

MORALITY:

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Morality and Literature

 

NATURE (NATURAL SCIENCES):

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Nature and Literature

 

RELIGION:

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Religion and Literature

 

SOCIETY (SOCIAL SCIENCES):

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Anthropology

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Cultural Studies

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Economics

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Human Geography

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Law

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Politics

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Sociology

 

SPORTS
 

GENERAL

ASSOCIATIONS

CAREERS

CONFERENCES

JOURNALS

PHOTOS

PRIMARY SOURCES

SECONDARY SOURCES

TEACHING AND LEARNING

WWW GATEWAYS

 

 

USA: AMERICAN THOUGHT


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ASSOCIATIONS

CONFERENCES

2008:

  • Conference on U.S. Intellectual History, Grand Valley State University, October 17-18

  • Summer Institute, Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, University of Colorado, Boulder, July 7-12

2007:

  • 69th Annual Meeting, Southwestern Philosophical Society, San Antonio, November 8-10

  • Annual Conference, British Association for American Studies, Centre for American Studies, University of Leicester, April 19-22

  • Jamestown 2007 and the Invention of America: Reality and Fiction, 2007 Virginia Humanities Conference, Christopher Newport University, March 30-31

  • American Secrets: the Politics and Poetics of Secrecy in American Culture, Spanish Association for American Studies, La Coruña, Spain, March 28-30

  • 34th Annual Meeting, Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, University of South Carolina, March 8-10

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2005:

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2000:

Annual:

COURSES

PHILOSOPHERS / THEORISTS

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

  • Anthologies:

    • Adams, George P., and William Pepperell Montague, eds.  Contemporary American Philosophy.  2 Vols.  New York: Macmillan, 1930.

    • Fisch, Max H., ed.  Classic American Philosophers: Peirce, James, Royce, Santayana, Dewey, Whitehead.  1951.  2nd Ed. New York: Fordham UP, 1996

    • Harris, Leonard, Scott L. Pratt, and Anne Waters, eds.  American Philosophies: an Anthology.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2001.

    • Kallen, Horace M., and Sidney Hook, eds.  American Philosophy Today and Tomorrow.  L. Furman, 1935.

    • Kurtz, Paul, ed.  American Philosophy in the Twentieth Century.  New York: Macmillan, 1966.

    • MacKinnon, Barbara, ed.  American Philosophy: a Historical Anthology.  Albany: SUNY Press, 1985.

    • Ryder, John, ed.  American Philosophic Naturalism in the Twentieth Century

    • Smith, John, ed.  Contemporary American Philosophy.  New York: , 1970. 

    • Stuhr, John J., ed.  Classical American Philosophy.  Oxford: OUP, 1987.

    • Arts:

  • Selected Individual Works:

    • Santayana, George.  "The Genteel Tradition in American Philosophy."  Winds of Doctrine.  London: J. M. Dent, 1913.

    • Arts:

      • Matthiessen, F. O.  American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman.  Oxford: OUP, 1941.

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SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

  • Anthologies:
    • Cayton, Mary Kupiec, and Peter W. Williams, eds.  Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History.  New York: Charles Scribner's, 2001.
    • Fleming, Donald, and Bernard Bailyn, eds.  The Intellectual Migration: Europe and America, 1930-1960.  Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1960.
    • Fox, Richard, and James Kloppenberg, eds.  Companion to American Thought.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1996.
    • Marsoobian, Armen, ed.  Blackwell Guide to American Philosophy.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2004.

    • Shook, John, ed.  Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers.  Bristol: Thoemmes, 2005.

    • Singer, Marcus G., ed.  American Philosophy.  Cambridge: CUP, 1985.

    • Walters, Ronald G., ed.  Scientific Authority and Twentieth Century America.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1997.

    • Arts:

      • Wolfreys, Julian, ed.  Modern North American Criticism and Theory.  Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2006.

  • Selected Individual Works:
    • Blau, Joseph.  Men and Movements in American Philosophy.  Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1952.
    • Conkin, Paul K.  Puritans and Pragmatists: Eight Eminent American Thinkers.  Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1968.
    • Easton, Loyd D.   Hegel's First American Followers: the Ohio Hegelians.  Athens, OH: Ohio UP, 1966.
    • Flower, Elizabeth, and Murray Murphey.  A History of Philosophy in America.  New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1977.
    • Goodman, Russell B.  American Philosophy and the Romantic Tradition.  Cambridge: CUP, 1990.

    • Halsey, William M.  The Survival of American Innocence.  Notre Dame: U of Notre Dame P, 198.
    • Kuklick, Bruce.  A History of Philosophy in America, 1720-2000.  Oxford: OUP, 2001.
    • Kuklick, Bruce.  Churchmen and Philosophers: from Jonathan Edwards to John Dewey.  New Haven: Yale UP, 1985.
    • Kuklick, Bruce.  The Rise of American Philosophy: Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1860-1930.  New Haven: Yale UP, 1977.

    • May, Henry.  The Enlightenment in America.  

    • McCumber, John.  Time in the Ditch: American Philosophy and the McCarthy Era.  Evanston: Northwestern UP, 2000.

    • Miller, Perry.  The Transcendentalists.  Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1950.

    • Nehamas, Alexander.  "Trends in Recent American Philosophy."  American Academic Culture in Transformation: Fifty Years, Four Disciplines.  Ed. Thomas Bender and Carl E. SchorskePrinceton: Princeton UP, 1997227-241.
    • Putnam, Hilary.  "A Half Century of Philosophy, Viewed from Within."  American Academic Culture in Transformation: Fifty Years, Four Disciplines.  Ed. Thomas Bender and Carl E. SchorskePrinceton: Princeton UP, 1997193-226
    • Riley, I. Woodbridge.  American Thought from Puritanism to Pragmatism and Beyond.  New York: Henry Holt, 1923.

    • Rose, Anne C.  Transcendentalism as a Social Movement, 1830-1850.  New Haven: Yale UP, 1981.

    • Ross, Dorothy.  The Origins of American Social Science.  Cambridge: CUP, 1991.

    • Schneider, Herbert W.  A History of American Philosophy.  New York: Columbia UP, 1946.

    • Slater, John.  Bibliography of Modern American Philosophy.  Bristol: Thoemmes Continuum, 2005.

    • Smith, John.  Themes in American Philosophy.  New York: Harper and Row, 1970.

    • Smith, John.  The Spirit of American Philosophy.  Oxford: OUP, 1963.

    • Townsend, H. G.  Philosophical Ideas in the United States.  American Book Co., 1934.

    • Werkmeister, W. H.  A History of Philosophical Ideas in AmericanNew York: Ronald Press, 1949.

  • Topics:

    • Arts:

      • Fekete, John.  The Critical Twilight: Explorations in the Ideology of Anglo-American Literary Theory from Eliot to McLuhan.  London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1978.
      • Leitch, Vincent American Literary Criticism from the Thirties to the Nineties.  New York: Columbia UP, 1988.
      • Pritchard, J. P.  Criticism in America.  Norman, OK: Pilgrim Press, 1956.
      • Stovall, Floyd, and Harry H. Clark.  The Development of American Literary Criticism.  Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina, 1955.

      • Sutton, Walter.  Modern American Criticism.  Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1963.

      • Webster, Grant.  The Republic of Letters: a History of Postwar American Literary Opinion.  1979.
      • Wellek, Rene.  American Criticism, 1900-1950.  Vol. 6 of A History of Modern Criticism, 1750-1950.  8 Vols.  New Haven: Yale UP, 1986.
    • Lentricchia, Frank.  After the New Criticism.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1981.
    • Communication:

      • Berlin, James A.  Rhetoric and Reality: Writing Instruction in American Colleges, 1900-1985.  Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1987.

      • Berlin, James A.  Writing Instruction in Nineteenth-Century American Colleges.  Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1984.

      • Johnson, Nan.  Nineteenth-Century Rhetoric in North America.  Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1991.

      • Kitzhaber, Albert R.  Rhetoric in American Colleges, 1850-1900.  Dallas: Southern Methodist UP, 1990.

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UNIVERSITY PROGRAMMES / RESEARCH CENTRES / RESEARCH PROJECTS

USA:

I have listed here, as far as possible, only those departments with graduate programmes.  For a complete listing, please see:

For rankings, please see:

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