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Although Veblen, Dewey, and Mills disagreed on a number of points, Rick Tilman shows how these thinkers forged an authentic, coherent, and original tradition of critical social science in the United States. By comparing their views on a number of timely issues such as aesthetics, feminism, and gambling, the author shows how their tradition is vibrantly relevant in the new millenium.
Veblen, Dewey, and Mills: An Intellectual Relationship FROM THE PUBLISHER
In this important new work, Rick Tilman takes another look at the political thought of Thorstein Veblen, John Dewey and C. Wright Mills. Although these thinkers disagreed on a number of points, Tilman shows how Veblen, Dewey and Mills forged an authentic, coherent and original tradition of critical social science in the United States. By comparing their views on various timely issues such as aesthetics, feminism and gambling, the author shows how their tradition is vibrantly relevant in the new millennium.
Groundbreaking and enlightening, Thorstein Veblen, John Dewey, C. Wright Mills and the Generic Ends of Life is essential reading for all interested in philosophy, politics, economics and social thought.
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Primarily focusing on Veblen's theories of gender and gender roles, collective goods, and public administration, Tilman (emeritus, U. of Nevada at Las Vegas) uses the later writings of Dewey and Mills to draw out previously neglected facets of Veblen, as well as to demonstrate the interrelatedness of these American radical social theorists, whose commonalities, Tilman believes, are rooted in Veblen's "generic ends of life, impersonally considered." Other issues considered include the three's approaches to gambling and games of chance, their social aesthetics, and their critiques of marginal utility economics. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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