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Twenty Years at Hull House

Disciplines:
autobiography
philosophy/social philosophy
romanticism/pragmatism

Summary

Jane Addams's memoir documenting twenty years of life at Hull House — the Chicago settlement house she co-founded — as both autobiography and social philosophy.

Core Contribution

Demonstrates that philosophy must arise from direct engagement with social problems; weaves theory and practice through narrative of immigrant community life, labor organizing, and democratic reform.

Historical Influences

Jane Addams

Intellectual Lineage

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Allied Works

Democracy and Social Ethics Newer Ideals of Peace

Contemporaries & Peers

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Minds Influenced

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Intellectual Posterity

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