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American intellectual history : a very short introduction / Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ratner-Rosenhagen, Jennifer, author.
- Series:
- Very short introductions.
- Very Short Introduction
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Intellectual life.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (181 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- Long 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. From this foundation of expectation and experience, America and American thought grew in turn, enriched by the bounties of the Enlightenment, the philosophies of liberty and individuality, the tenets of religion, and the doctrines of republicanism and democracy. In engaging and accessible prose, Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen's introduction to American thought considers how notions about freedom and belonging, the market and morality - and even truth - have commanded generations of Americans and been the cause of fierce debate.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-062244-X
- 0-19-062245-8
- OCLC:
- 1264471760
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