American Studies C132B - 2014-08-28: | AUDIO starts at min 12:15 -- Introduction to class: who is an “intellectual,” what is “intellectual history”? Intellectual history compared to “history of ideas”; intellectuals as distinct from…

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1. American Studies C132B - 2014-08-28: | AUDIO starts at min 12:15 -- Introduction to class: who is an “intellectual,” what is “intellectual history”? Intellectual history compared to “history of ideas”; intellectuals as distinct from… 44 min · Video
2. American Studies C132B - 2014-09-02: Economic growth and social conflict after the Civil War—Edward Bellamy’s nationalist solution—Andrew Carnegie’s defense of the modern corporation 1 h 21 min · Video
3. American Studies C132B - 2014-09-04: Understanding Bellamy and Carnegie in relation to republicanism, American political economy, and Scottish “common sense” philosophy 1 h 22 min · Video
4. American Studies C132B - 2014-09-09: Humboldt’s influence on natural history and the practice of science in the United States before Darwin—the new geology and positivism 1 h 19 min · Video
5. American Studies C132B - 2014-09-11: The reception of Darwin in the United States—social Darwinism—functionalism versus structuralism | LOW AUDIO FIRST 10 MINUTES 1 h 12 min · Video
6. American Studies C132B - 2014-09-16: Introduction to pragmatism—Charles Sanders Peirce on community and knowledge |NO AUDIO FOR FIRST 30 MINUTES 46 min · Video
7. American Studies C132B - 2014-09-18: Peirce’s semiotic systems 1 h 5 min · Video
8. American Studies C132B - 2014-09-23: William James on truth, systems of representation, will, habit—the role of faith in action and in the formation of scientific understanding 1 h 23 min · Video
9. American Studies C132B - 2014-09-25: John Dewey’s application of pragmatism to questions of education, democratic process, and the formation of public opinion 1 h 24 min · Video
10. American Studies C132B - 2014-09-30: George Herbert Mead and social psychology—the growth of the American research university 1 h 20 min · Video
11. American Studies C132B - 2014-10-02: Modernism and modernity 58 min · Video
12. American Studies C132B - 2014-10-07: The Chicago School of Sociology and initial conceptualizations of modernization 1 h 10 min · Video
13. American Studies C132B - 2014-10-09: Fundamentalism and the rise of creationism 1 h 17 min · Video
14. American Studies C132B - 2014-10-14: Responding to the Great Depression—popular front culture 1 h 21 min · Video
15. American Studies C132B - 2014-10-16 1 h 12 min · Video
16. American Studies C132B - 2014-10-23: Mass society versus totalitarianism 1 h 14 min · Video
17. American Studies C132B - 2014-10-28: Bebop and existentialism—the ethos of self-actualization 1 h 21 min · Video
18. American Studies C132B - 2014-10-30: Postwar black liberation movements 1 h 19 min · Video
19. American Studies C132B - 2014-11-04: Modernization and development 46 min · Video
20. American Studies C132B - 2014-11-06: Critiques of managerial liberalism—the growth of countercultures—Robert Frank’s The Americans 1 h 8 min · Video
21. American Studies C132B - 2014-11-13: The crises of managerial liberalism 1 h 21 min · Video
22. American Studies C132B - 2014-11-18: The linguistic turn 1 h 6 min · Video
23. American Studies C132B - 2014-12-02: Since 1968, economic policy and equality; global leadership and national security; difference and democracy 56 min · Video
24. American Studies C132B - 2014-12-04: Since 1968, economic policy and equality; global leadership and national security; difference and democracy 50 min · Video