Veblen, Dewey, and Mills: An Intellectual Relationship

In this important new work, Rick Tilman takes another look at the political thought of Thorstein Veblen, John Dewey, and C. Wright Mills. Although these thinkers disagreed on a number of points, Tilman shows how Veblen, Dewey, and Mills forged an authentic, coherent, and original tradition of critical social science in the United States. By comparing their views on a number of timely issues such as aesthetics, feminism, and gambling, the author shows how their tradition is vibrantly relevant in the new millenium. Ground-breaking and enlightening, Thorstein Veblen, John Dewey, C. Wright Mills and the Generic Ends of Life is essential reading for all interested in philosophy, politics, economics, or social thought.

Although Veblen, Dewey, and Mills disagreed on a number of points, Rick Tilman shows how these thinkers forged an authentic, coherent, and original tradition of critical social science in the United States. By comparing their views on a number of timely issues such as aesthetics, feminism, and gambling, the author shows how their tradition is vibrantly relevant in the new millenium.

Rick Tilman is professor emeritus at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is the author of numerous books and articles including C.Wright Mills: A Native Radical and His American Intellectual Roots, Thorstein Veblen and his Critics, 1891-1963, and Ideology and Utopia in the Social Philosophy of the Libertarian Economists.