Halfway to revolution: investigation and crisis in the work of Henry Adams, William James and Gertrude Stein

Abstract

Part 1 Henry Adams - towards the social world: opening the field from hero to social type a poetics of social hegemony the arts of transition - The Education of Henry Adams. Part 2 A metaphysics in reserve - William James and some dilemmas of the liberal centre: Adams and James William James - the self and politics America and Europe - locations of sensations and healthy states philosophizing a social pathology - Agassiz, Darwin, Adams, James The Principles of Psychology war and peace in the global psyche. Part 3 Beyond the Fourth Natural Kingdom: Gertrude Stein and the legitimation of society indices for an approach to Stein - language in the late 19th and early 20th centuries How To Write decline in the West - Gertrude Stein's Making of Americans a world made of stories picking up the pieces - an open conclusion.