A MISERABLE FIT OF THE BLUES: PRAGMATISM, EXCEPTIONALISM AND THE FAILURE OF AMERICAN MARXISM, 1900-1922

Résumé du livre

character of modern science. The theoretical crisis sparked by the outbreak of war and revolution in Europe, in turn, serves as a crucible for canons of interpretation that continue to shape the way we understand American politics and history. The war-related effort to create a sufficiently nasty image of German "Kultur" to justify American intervention constitutes a key moment in the construction of a distinctively pragmatist, "Anglo-American" tradition. The thinness of American Marxism derives in part