The worlds of American intellectual history

Introduction: opening American thought / James T. Kloppenberg

Part I. Frames

What was the American enlightenment? / Caroline Winterer

The "woman question" in the age of mass democracy: from movement history to problem history / Leslie Butler

"We people of color": colored cosmopolitanism and the borders of race / Nico Slate

Curating the Black atlantic / Jonathan Holloway

Part II. Justice

The sins of slaves and the slaves of sin: toward a history of moral agency / Margaret Abruzzo

Nationalism and cosmopolitan humanity in mid-nineteenth-century American political science / Duncan Kelly

The political origins of global justice / Samuel Moyn

Part III. Philosophy

Unstiffening theory: the Italian magic pragmatists and William James / Francesca Bordogna

The longing for wisdom in twentieth-century US thought / Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen

Pain, analytical philosophy, and American intellectual history / Joel Isaac

On lying: writing philosophical history after the enlightenment and after Arendt / Sophia Rosenfeld

Part IV. Secularization

Science and religion in postwar America / Andrew Jewett

Religion within the bounds of democracy alone: Habermas, Rawls, and the trans-Atlantic debate over public reason / Peter Gordon

Christianity and its American fate: where history interrogates secularization theory / David Hollinger

Part V. Method

Paths in the social history of ideas / Daniel T. Rodgers

Toward a free-range intellectual history / Sarah Igo

New directions, then and now / Angus Burgin

Afterword / Michael O'Brien.