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CRITIC AT LARGE

The Fuller Brushoff — Margaret Fuller as Transcendentalist

In Pragmatism and Feminism (University of Chicago Press, 1996), Purdue philosophy professor Charlene Haddock Seigfried demonstrated the price to pragmatism of a canon that long excluded women thinkers such as Jane Addams. To be seminal, Seigfried argued, you needn't be an inseminator. In...

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