Education and Democracy: The Meaning of Alexander Meiklejohn, 1872–1964

Bibliography and Suggestions for Further Reading

391 Bibliography and Suggestions for Further Reading A number of unpublished theses have been written on Meiklejohn or Meiklejohnrelated topics. They include Robert Baldwin, “A Quest for Unity: An Analysis of the Educational Theories of Alexander Meiklejohn” (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation , University of Pittsburgh, 1967); Charles Cooper, “Alexander Meiklejohn: Absolutes of Intelligence in Political and Constitutional Theory” (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Bryn Mawr College, 1967); Scott Abbott, “Philosopher and Dean: Alexander Meiklejohn at Brown, 1901–1912” (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation , University of Denver, 1967); E. Hugh Overfield, “The First Amendment, Mr. Meiklejohn, and Justice White” (unpublished M.A. thesis, St. Mary’s University , San Antonio, Texas, 1968); Hermione Shantz, “The Social and Educational Theory of Alexander Meiklejohn” (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Michigan State University, 1969); Eugene Perry, “Alexander Meiklejohn and the Organic Theory of Democracy” (unpublished M.A. thesis, Syracuse University, 1969); Carol Ann Smetts, “Mr. Justice Black and Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn: Two Theories of Absolutism and Freedom of Speech and Press” (unpublished M.A. thesis, Kent State University, 1970); James Milburn Green, “Alexander Meiklejohn: Innovator in Undergraduate Education” (unpublished M.A. thesis, University of Michigan, 1970); Ernest Racz, “Meiklejohn” (unpublished Ed.D. dissertation, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1979); Mack Palmer, “The Qualified Absolute : Alexander Meiklejohn and Freedom of Speech” (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation , University of Wisconsin, 1979); Gari Cheever, “An Alternative Look at the First Amendment: Professor Meiklejohn and the U.S. Supreme Court” (unpublished B.A. honors thesis, Arizona State University, 1980); Margaret G. Frantz, “Radical Visions: Alexander Meiklejohn on Education, Culture, Democracy , and the First Amendment” (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1984); Robert Brennan, “The Making of the Liberal College : Alexander Meiklejohn at Amherst” (unpublished qualifying paper, Harvard Graduate School of Education, 1986); LaVerne Elizabeth Thomas Thompson, “A Study of Influence in Liberal Education and Liberal Educational Thought: Presidents Alexander Meiklejohn and Charles W. Cole of Amherst College” (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of Toledo, 1991); and Paul Gates, “The Professor , Freedom, and the Court: Alexander Meiklejohn and the First Amendment” (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of Florida, 1996). The only published book on Alexander Meiklejohn is Cynthia Stokes Brown, Alexander Meiklejohn: Teacher of Freedom (Berkeley, Calif., 1981). Many other secondary sources informed this work as well. Following is a list of the most relevant, arranged by chapter and topic. PREFACE: MEIKLEJOHN, SOCRATES, AND THE PARADOX OF DEMOCRATIC EDUCATION For more information on higher education and postmodernism with specific reference to the philosophy of John Dewey, see Wilfred Carr, “Education and Democracy: Confronting the Postmodernist Challenge,” Journal of Philosophy of Education (March 1995): 75–91. For a reply to Carr’s article, see Nigel Blake, “The Democracy We Need: Situation, Post-Foundationalism, and Enlightenment ,” Journal of the Philosophy of Education (July 1996): 215–238. See also Wilfred Carr, “Professing Education in a Postmodern Age,” Journal of the Philosophy of Education (July 1997): 309–328; Nigel Blake, “Ideal Speech Conditions : Modern Discourse and Education,” Journal of Philosophy of Education (November 1995): 355–368; Michael Peters, “Education and the Postmodern Condition,” Journal of Philosophy of Education (November 1995): 387–400; Paul Smeyers, “Education and the Educational Project I: The Atmosphere of Postmodernism ,” Journal of Philosophy of Education (March 1995): 109–120; William B. Stanley, Curriculum for Utopia: Social Reconstructivism and Critical Pedagogy in the Postmodern Era (Albany, 1992); Jurgen Habermas, Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action (Cambridge, Mass., 1990); Jean-Francois Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (Minneapolis, 1984; originally published in French, 1979); and Joseph Margolis, Pragmatism without Foundations: Reconciling Realism with Relativism (Oxford, 1986). CHAPTER 1. “A VOYAGE ACROSS THE ATLANTIC” AND “KANT’S ETHICS” For centennial celebrations of the Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers, see William Brown, The Rochdale Pioneers: A Century of Cooperation in Rochdale (Manchester, England, 1944); Joseph Reeves, A Century of Rochdale Cooperation , 1844–1944: A Critical but Sympathetic Survey of a Significant Movement of the Workers for Economic Emancipation (London, 1944); and George Cole, A Century of Cooperation (Manchester, England, 1945). Useful studies of workingclass immigrant experiences in the late nineteenth century include John Bodnar, The Transplanted: A History of Immigrants in Urban America (Bloomington, Bibliography 392 Ind., 1985) and Immigration and Industrialization: Ethnicity in an American Mill Town, 1870–1940 (Pittsburgh, 1977); and Leonard Dinnerstein, Ethnic Americans : A History of Immigration and Assimilation (New York, 1982). For information on the history of Pawtucket, see Susan Marie Boucher, The History of Pawtucket, 1635–1986 (Pawtucket...