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Authority and Trust in US Culture and Society Interdisciplinary Approaches and Perspectives Günter Leypoldt, Manfred Berg
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- American Culture Studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Trust.
- Authority.
- Populism.
- Urbanity.
- US Religion.
- US Literature.
- America.
- Politics.
- Literature.
- American History.
- Policy.
- American Studies.
- History.
- Cultural Studies.
- Local Subjects:
- Trust.
- Authority.
- Populism.
- Urbanity.
- US Religion.
- US Literature.
- America.
- Politics.
- Literature.
- American History.
- Policy.
- American Studies.
- History.
- Cultural Studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (282 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Leypoldt/Berg (eds.), Authority and Trust Interdisciplinary Approaches and Perspectives
- Place of Publication:
- Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2021
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Biography/History:
- Günter Leypoldt is a professor of American literature and culture at Heidelberg University, the author of Cultural Authority in the Age of Whitman: A Transatlantic Perspective (2009), and editor of Intellectual Authority and Literary Culture in the US, 1790-1900 (2013) and Reading Practices (2015).
- Manfred Berg is the Curt Engelhorn Professor of American History at Heidelberg University. He is the author and editor of nineteen books, including The Ticket to Freedom: The NAACP and the Struggle for Black Political Integration (2005); Popular Justice: A History of Lynching in America (2011); Woodrow Wilson. Amerika und die Neuordnung der Welt. Eine Biographie (2017).
- Summary:
- In the past two decades, a discourse of crisis has emerged about the democratic institutions and political culture of the US: many structures of authority which people had more or less taken for granted are facing a massive public loss of trust. This volume takes an interdisciplinary and historical look at the transformations of authority and trust in the United States. The contributors examine government institutions, political parties, urban neighborhoods, scientific experts, international leadership, religious communities, and literary production. Exploring the nexus between authority and trust is crucial to understand the loss of legitimacy experienced by political, social, and cultural institutions not only in the United States but in Western democracies at large.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- The Decline of Political Trust and the Rise of Populism in the United States
- Waning Trust in (Scientific) Experts and Expertise?
- Shifting Meridians of Global Authority
- Trust and the City
- “We must trust that look of hers”
- “We believe that we have a right to revelations, visions, and dreams from God”
- The Trust Debate in the Literature of the American Renaissance
- Authority, Genealogy, Infrastructure
- Shoppers, Worshippers, Culture Warriors
- List of Contributors
- Notes:
- CC BY-SA
- ISBN:
- 9783839451892
- 3839451892
- OCLC:
- 1240583806
- Access Restriction:
- Open access Unrestricted online access
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