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Idealism, Pragmatism, and Feminism: The Philosophy of Ella Lyman Cabot
This is an intellectual biography in the most literal sense; at no point in the history of American philosophy has an individual embodied the ideals that they wrote about at length. Philosophical idealism, pragmatism and feminism served as guides for Ella Lyman Cabot as she entered the discipline of philosophy, a discipline that continues to marginalize the work of women to this very day.
Book Details
- Publisher: Lexington Books
- Publish Date: Jul 19th, 2013
- Pages: 242
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.00in - 6.00in - 0.60in - 0.70lb
- EAN: 9780739185988
- Categories: • Movements - Pragmatism• History & Surveys - Modern• Feminism & Feminist Theory
About the Author
John J. Kaag is assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell.
Praise for this book
This thoughtful, sensitive, fascinating study of a thoughtful, sensitive, fascinating woman revives an almost forgotten American philosopher. John Kaag's account of the life and work of Ella Lyman Cabot locates her in relation to her better-known contemporaries, traces the development of her thought, narrates details of her remarkable marriage, and compellingly argues for the importance of her ideas. His penetrating analysis also supports his own argument for the value of philosophical thought that is grounded in and useful for daily experience and of the kind of practical idealism that Cabot's work embodies.
As one who has long identified with idealistic pragmatism and feminism, I highly recommend this engaging and well-researched book. It goes far to reduce a significant gap in the literature of classical American philosophy.
John Kaag succeeds brilliantly in presenting Ella Lyman Cabot as an original philosopher in her own right, and as a conversation partner with leading intellectuals of her day. He skillfully places the achievements and tensions in her thought within intellectual, historical, and biographical contexts. The scholarship is meticulous and imaginative; the writing elegant and gracious. Kaag thoroughly justifies Cabot's inclusion as a significant philosopher and feminist theorist in American intellectual thought.
Idealism, Pragmatism, and Feminism is really a must read for anyone interested in American philosophy and it makes an important contribution to the contemporary process of expanding the cannon of significant thinkers in the pragmatist tradition.