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Life and the Student (1927), with a new introduction by Jonathan B
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INTRODUCTION: THE VOCATION OF CHARLES HORTON COOLEY
by Jonathan B. Imber
PART ONE
OUR TIME
Automobiles � Strategy of the Youth Movement � Confusion and
Continuity � Shaky Bridges � "Our Complex Life" � Radicalism
and Reaction � The Conservatism of Intelligence � Education and
Religion � Nationality � American Patriotism � Traits of Democracy
� Immigrants � Americanization � Race � Anti-Semitism �
Eugenists � Team-Work � Social Mechanics � Classes and Culture
� The Upper Class � Class Magazines � The Handworking Classes
� Class-Conflict �Rural Physiognomy � Progress?
PART TWO
READING AND WRITING
Books and Persons � Character � The Book and the Sentence � Form
� Freedom in Books � Diary Books � Literary Selves � Egotism �
Selves and Bodies � Struggle � Tranquillity � Jealousy � Criticism �
Self-Criticism � Residual Satisfactions � Magazines � Goethe � Dante
� Pascal � Bacon � Montesquieu and de Tocqueville � La Bruyere
� Samuel Butler � Quiet in Books � Thoreau � Thomas a Kempis
PART THREE
THINKING
Originality � System and Spontaneity � How to Grow Ideas � Dried
Truth � Motives � Milieu � Controversy. � The Subservience of
Contradiction � Notes from Practice � Children's Philosophy
PART FOUR
ART, SCIENCE AND SOCIOLOGY
Building � The Glamour of Art � The Artist's Public � Heritage � Art
and Conduct � An Art of Society? � Art and Science � The Fallibility
of Scientific Groups � Skirmishes on the Border � Pseudo-Science
� Perception � Diagrams and Statistics � Traits of Sociology � Two
Ways of Organizing Life � The Organization of Freedom � "Heredity
or Environment."
PART FIVE
ACADEMIC
A Soft Job � An Art? � The Day's Work � The Eloquent Man � Formalism
� Heritage and Spontaneity � The Passing Current � The
Chair � American Universities � The Campus � Scholars and Administrators
� Genius on the Faculty � Academic Freedom � The
Academic Outlook � Outing
PART SIX
HUMAN NATURE
Is Human Nature Selfish � Self-Expression � The Looking-Glass Self
� Possessions � The Material "I" � On a Remark of Dr. Holmes � On
Certain Sentiments � The "Gregarious Instinct " � Plans � Anticipation
� The End of the World � The Transitive Attitude � Posthumous
Fame � Might and Right � Prudence � Worry � Distraction � Mental
Management � Compensation
PART SEVEN
LARGER LIFE
Faith � The Mind of the Soldier � The Lot of the Individual � As to
the Shortness of Life � Evolution � Expansion � Solidarity � Perplexity
� The Incredibility of Institutions � Past, Present and Future �
Ideas about God � God and Oneself � Seeking God � Another Life?
� Varieties of Idealism � Can Christianity Survive? � The Golden
Rule � Group Sins � Social Religion � Christianity and Class � The
Church � Salvation
INDEX
About the author
Carl Friedrich
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Life and the Student (1927), with a new introduction by Jonathan B