Lexington Books
Pages: 242
Trim: 6 x 9
978-0-7391-6781-6 • eBook • December 2011 • $49.00 • (£38.00)
Subjects: Philosophy / History & Surveys / Modern,
Biography & Autobiography / Educators,
Biography & Autobiography / Philosophers,
Biography & Autobiography / Women,
Education / History,
Education / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects,
Philosophy / Movements / Pragmatism,
Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory,
Social Science / Regional Studies,
Social Science / Women's Studies,
Philosophy / American Philosophy,
Philosophy / Gender Philosophy
John J. Kaag is assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell.
Preface
Chapter 1: The Life of American Philosophy - The Education of Ella Lyman Cabot
Chapter 2: Women and Forgotten Movements in American Philosophy: Ella Lyman Cabot and Mary Parker Follett on Growth and Creativity
Chapter 3: Ella Lyman Cabot's Chance: The Nature of Contingency in the American Philosophical Tradition
Chapter 4: Everyday Ethics: Morality and the Imagination
Chapter 5: "How Does it Feel to Be a Problem?" - Women in American Thought
Chapter 6: Cabot on Peace Education: Moral Psychology, Ethics, and International Affairs (1906-1930)
Chapter 7: "Thought is Never at Rest:" Ella Lyman Cabot and the Struggle of Idealism
Appendix: Selected Writings of Ella Lyman Cabot
This thoughtful, sensitive, fascinating study of a thoughtful, sensitive, fascinating woman revives an almost forgotten American philosopher. John Kaag's account of the life and work of Ella Lyman Cabot locates her in relation to her better-known contemporaries, traces the development of her thought, narrates details of her remarkable marriage, and compellingly argues for the importance of her ideas. His penetrating analysis also supports his own argument for the value of philosophical thought that is grounded in and useful for daily experience and of the kind of practical idealism that Cabot's work embodies.
— Patricia Meyer Spacks, Edgar Shannon Professor of English Emerita, University of Virginia