William James and Josiah Royce - James's Pragmatism & American Social Thought 1907-2007

Delivered on May 26, 2007. James T. Kloppenberg is Harvard College Professor and David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History at Harvard University, with central interests in American democratic theory and practice. His publications include The Virtues of Liberalism (Oxford University Press, 1998); A Companion to American Thought (Blackwell, 1995), edited with Richard Wightman Fox; and Uncertain Victory: Social Democracy and Progressivism in European and American Thought 1870-1920 (Oxford University, 1986).