Ratner-Rosenhagen, Jennifer
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자료유형 | E-BOOK |
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서명/저자사항 | American intellectual history : a very short introduction/ Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen. |
개인저자 | Ratner-Rosenhagen, Jennifer,author. |
발행사항 | New York, NY: Oxford University Press, [2021]. |
형태사항 | 1 online resource (xxii, 158 pages): illustrations, map. |
총서사항 | Very short introductions |
기타형태 저록 | Print version: Ratner-Rosenhagen, Jennifer. American intellectual history New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021] 9780190622435 |
ISBN | 9780190622459 0190622458 9780190622442 019062244X 0190622466 9780190625375 0190625376 9780190622466 |
서지주기 | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
내용주기 | Intro -- Cover -- American Intellectual History: A Very Short Introduction -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: World of empires: precontact-1740 -- Intellectual consequences of the Americas for Europe -- Native and European intellectual exchanges -- Puritan intellectual order in a disordered American world -- Chapter 2: America and the transatlantic Enlightenment: 1741-1800 -- The transatlantic republic of letters -- The enlightened eye and its blind spots -- Revolutionary republicanism -- Thomas Paine and the war of ideas -- Chapter 3: From republican to Romantic: 1800-1850 -- Made in America, 1.0 -- The making of Transcendentalism -- The split screen of the Southern mind -- Woman thinking -- Chapter 4: Contests of intellectual authority: 1850-90 -- The scientific reception of Darwin's Origin of Species -- Of faith and finches -- Varieties of evolutionary social thought -- Chapter 5: Modernist revolts: 1890-1920 -- The World's Columbian Exposition: a festival of ideas -- Pragmatism: a new theory of knowledge and a new idea of "truth" -- From pragmatism to progressivism -- The politics of cultural pluralism -- Chapter 6: Roots and rootlessness: 1920-45 -- The shadows of modernization -- From the lost generation to the founding of an African American renaissance -- Intellectual underpinnings of the New Deal -- Intellectual exiles arrive in America -- Chapter 7: The opening of the American mind: 1945-70 -- The postwar expansion of intellectual opportunity -- Postwar political commentary: left, right, and "vital center" -- Quests for authenticity -- Religion and the intellectuals -- Chapter 8: Against universalism: 1962-90s -- 1962 or thereabouts -- The American discovery of postmodernism -- Identity politics and the culture wars. Epilogue: Rethinking America in an age of globalization -- or, the conversation continues -- References -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Further reading -- Index. |
요약 | "American Intellectual History: A Very Short Introduction provides an introduction to American thought. It considers how notions about freedom and belonging, the market and morality have commanded generations of Americans and been the cause of fierce debate. Before the United States was a nation, it was a set of ideas, projected onto the New World by European explorers with centuries of belief and thought in tow. America and American thought grew from this foundation of expectation and experience, enriched by the Enlightenment, liberty and individuality, religion, and republicanism and democracy. The VSI shows how ideas have been major forces that drove movements in American history, such as transcendentalism and postmodernism"-- |
해제 | Provided by publisher. |
주제명(지명) | United States --Intellectual life. États-Unis --Vie intellectuelle. United States. --fast |
일반주제명 | Intellectual life. |
언어 | 영어 |
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