Cultural Pluralism and the American Idea : An Essay in Social Philosophy

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas. Preface Contents I. Cultural Pluralism and the American Idea Of Meanings of Culture Concerning Varieties of Pluralism Culture and the American Idea II. Comment and Discussion The Spirit of Cultural Pluralism A Reaction to Kallen's Essay Commitment, Bias, and Tolerayice Reflections of a Wayfaring Lay vi an Dr. Kallen's Idea of Americanization and Cultural Relativism Some Thoughts on Cultural Pluralism and the American Idea Some Queries for Professor Kallen American Individualism and Horace Κallen's Idea A Critique of Kallen's Cultural Pluralism III. Reprise Pluralism, Culture, Fact, Fantasy, and Faith