Jane Addams And The Practice Of Democracy

Author : Marilyn Fischer
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252091221
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jane Addams and the Practice of Democracy written by Marilyn Fischer and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a rich array of newly available sources and contemporary methodologies from many disciplines, the ten original essays in this volume give a fresh appraisal of Addams as a theorist and practitioner of democracy. In an increasingly interdependent world, Addams's life work offers resources for activists, scholars, policy makers, and theorists alike. This volume demonstrates how scholars continue to interpret Addams as a model for transcending disciplinary boundaries, generating theory out of concrete experience, and keeping theory and practice in close and fruitful dialogue. Contributors are Harriet Hyman Alonso, Victoria Bissell Brown, Wendy Chmielewski, Marilyn Fischer, Shannon Jackson, Louise W. Knight, Carol Nackenoff, Karen Pastorello, Wendy Sarvasay, Charlene Haddock Seigfried, and Camilla Stivers.

Author : Louise W. Knight
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226447014
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Citizen written by Louise W. Knight and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jane Addams was the first American woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. Now Citizen, Louise W. Knight's masterful biography, reveals Addams's early development as a political activist and social philosopher. In this book we observe a powerful mind grappling with the radical ideas of her age, most notably the ever-changing meanings of democracy. Citizen covers the first half of Addams's life, from 1860 to 1899. Knight recounts how Addams, a child of a wealthy family in rural northern Illinois, longed for a life of larger purpose. She broadened her horizons through education, reading, and travel, and, after receiving an inheritance upon her father's death, moved to Chicago in 1889 to co-found Hull House, the city's first settlement house. Citizen shows vividly what the settlement house actually was—a neighborhood center for education and social gatherings—and describes how Addams learned of the abject working conditions in American factories, the unchecked power wielded by employers, the impact of corrupt local politics on city services, and the intolerable limits placed on women by their lack of voting rights. These experiences, Knight makes clear, transformed Addams. Always a believer in democracy as an abstraction, Addams came to understand that this national ideal was also a life philosophy and a mandate for civic activism by all. As her story unfolds, Knight astutely captures the enigmatic Addams's compassionate personality as well as her flawed human side. Written in a strong narrative voice, Citizen is an insightful portrait of the formative years of a great American leader. “Knight’s decision to focus on Addams’s early years is a stroke of genius. We know a great deal about Jane Addams the public figure. We know relatively little about how she made the transition from the 19th century to the 20th. In Knight’s book, Jane Addams comes to life. . . . Citizen is written neither to make money nor to gain academic tenure; it is a gift, meant to enlighten and improve. Jane Addams would have understood.”—Alan Wolfe, New York Times Book Review “My only complaint about the book is that there wasn’t more of it. . . . Knight honors Addams as an American original.”—Kathleen Dalton, Chicago Tribune

Author : Marilyn Fischer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022663146X
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jane Addams's Evolutionary Theorizing written by Marilyn Fischer and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-07-01 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Jane Addams’s Evolutionary Theorizing, Marilyn Fischer advances the bold and original claim that Addams’s reasoning in her first book, Democracy and Social Ethics, is thoroughly evolutionary. While Democracy and Social Ethics, a foundational text of classical American pragmatism, is praised for advancing a sensitive and sophisticated method of ethical deliberation, Fischer is the first to explore its intellectual roots. Examining essays Addams wrote in the 1890s and showing how they were revised for Democracy and Social Ethics, Fischer draws from philosophy, history, literature, rhetoric, and more to uncover the array of social evolutionary thought Addams engaged with in her texts—from British socialist writings on the evolution of democracy to British and German anthropological accounts of the evolution of morality. By excavating Addams’s evolutionary reasoning and rhetorical strategies, Fischer reveals the depth, subtlety, and richness of Addams’s thought.

Author : Judith Bloom Fradin
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618504367
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jane Addams written by Judith Bloom Fradin and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2006 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at the life of the "pacifist" Jane Addams.

Author : Jane Addams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democracy and Social Ethics written by Jane Addams and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jean Bethke Elshtain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0465024203
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jane Addams And The Dream Of American Democracy written by Jean Bethke Elshtain and published by . This book was released on 2002-12-10 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new interpretive biography of the life and work of Jane Addams explores the intellectual movements that influenced her career, her creation of Hull House as a cultural and intellectual center, and her cultural, social, and political impact on her era. 25,000 first printing.

Author : Jane Addams
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 9361153358
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democracy And Social Ethics written by Jane Addams and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-01-02 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Democracy and Social Ethics" by Jane Addams is a groundbreaking paintings that explores the intertwining nation-states of democracy, ethics, and social responsibility. Addams, a distinguished American social reformer, feminist, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, offers a compelling exam of the moral implications of a democratic society. Addams argues that democracy isn't always simply a political device however a way of lifestyles that needs moral engagement. Through a blend of philosophy, sociology, and practical examples from her own reviews at Hull House, an agreement residence she co-founded in Chicago, Addams advocates for a socially conscious democracy. She delves into troubles together with poverty, labor, and the ethical demanding situations bobbing up from industrialization, urging readers to keep in mind the ethical dimensions of public and private existence. "Democracy and Social Ethics" stays a cornerstone inside the literature of social justice, highlighting the importance of moral considerations in shaping a just and equitable democratic society. Addams' insights retain to resonate, imparting a timeless manual for those interested in the ethical foundations of democracy and social reform.

Author : Jane Addams
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Collected Works of Jane Addams written by Jane Addams and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-11-30 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ebook collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Jane Addams (1860 – 1935), known as the "mother" of social work, was a pioneer American settlement activist, public philosopher, sociologist, protestor, author, and leader in women's suffrage and world peace. In 1931 she became the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and is recognized as the founder of the social work profession in the United States. Contents: Democracy and Social Ethics The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets A New Conscience and An Ancient Evil Why Women Should Vote Belated Industry Twenty Years at Hull-House

Author : Jane Addams
Publisher : e-artnow sro
ISBN 13 : 8027242789
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Collected Works of Jane Addams written by Jane Addams and published by e-artnow sro. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Louise W. Knight
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 039308048X
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jane Addams: Spirit in Action written by Louise W. Knight and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2010-09-06 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this landmark biography, Jane Addams becomes America's most admired and most hated woman—and wins the Nobel Peace Prize. Jane Addams (1860-1935) was a leading statesperson in an era when few imagined such possibilities for women. In this fresh interpretation, the first full biography of Addams in nearly forty years, Louise W. Knight shows Addams's boldness, creativity, and tenacity as she sought ways to put the ideals of democracy into action. Starting in Chicago as a co-founder of the nation's first settlement house, Hull House—a community center where people of all classes and ethnicities could gather—Addams became a grassroots organizer and a partner of trade unionists, women, immigrants, and African Americans seeking social justice. In time she emerged as a progressive political force; an advocate for women's suffrage; an advisor to presidents; a co-founder of civil rights organizations, including the NAACP; and a leader for international peace. Written as a fast-paced narrative, Jane Addams traces how one woman worked with others to make a difference in the world.