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Attempting to place Veblen in an intellectual tradition will only yield frustration and confusion as he was sui generis and eclectic.

Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgments Veblen's "Social Marginality" and "Intellectual Iconoclasm" Veblen, Darwin, and Biology Veblen's Psychology and Its Doctrinal Roots Veblen and American Pragmatism: The Case of John Dewey Kant, Veblen, and the Aesthetics of Heterodox Economics Veblen and the Industrial Republic: The Path to the Future Veblen and the New Deal Resolving the Problematic: Veblen's Eclectic Originality Bibliography

About the Author

RICK TILMAN is Professor of Public Administration at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Dr. Tilman is the author of C. Wright Mills: A Native Radical and the American Intellectual Tradition (1984), Thorstein Veblen and His Critics 1891-1963 (1992), and A Veblen Treasury (1993).

Reviews

?Tilman's study is an insightful contribution to Veblen scholarship and to the intellectual history of the era from 1890 to 1920. Tilman has exploited materials from archival sources neglected by his predecessors to establish in detail relationships between Veblen and other thinkers that earlier scholars only hinted at or disregarded altogether....Using his trove of new material, Tilman has produced the best interpretation of Veblen's personality and intellectual influence since Joseph Dorfman's Thorstein Veblen and His America....Legacy establishes Veblen as an eclectic thinker--one who synthesized ideas drawn from others into a unique system of social theory--and Tilman as the premier Veblen scholar of this generation.?-Business Library Review

"Tilman's study is an insightful contribution to Veblen scholarship and to the intellectual history of the era from 1890 to 1920. Tilman has exploited materials from archival sources neglected by his predecessors to establish in detail relationships between Veblen and other thinkers that earlier scholars only hinted at or disregarded altogether....Using his trove of new material, Tilman has produced the best interpretation of Veblen's personality and intellectual influence since Joseph Dorfman's Thorstein Veblen and His America....Legacy establishes Veblen as an eclectic thinker--one who synthesized ideas drawn from others into a unique system of social theory--and Tilman as the premier Veblen scholar of this generation."-Business Library Review