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At the Center
eBook - American Thought and Culture in the Mid-Twentieth Century, American Thought and Culture
ISBN/EAN: 9781442226760
Umbreit-Nr.: 988226
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 336 S.
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Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 03.12.2019
Auflage: 1/2019
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Format: EPUB
DRM: Adobe DRM
- Zusatztext
- <span>At a time when American political and cultural leaders asserted that the nation stood at the center of world awareness, thinkers and artists sought to understand and secure principles that lay at the center of things. From the onset of the Cold War in 1948 through 1963, they asked: What defined the essential character of American culture? Could permanent moral standards guide human conduct amid the flux and horrors of history? In what ways did a stable self emerge through the life cycle? Could scientific method rescue truth from error, illusion, and myth? Are there key elements to democracy, to the integrity of a society, to order in the world? Answers to such questions promised intellectual and moral stability in an age haunted by the memory of world war and the possibility of future devastation on an even greater scale. Yet other key figures rejected the search for a center, asserting that freedom lay in the dispersion of cultural energies and the plurality of American experiences. In probing the centering impulse of the era,</span><span>At the Center</span><span> offers a unique perspective on the United States at the pinnacle of its power.</span>
- Kurztext
- <span>At the Center </span> <span>explores the mode of perception and reflection which grasped at consensus and sought to determine "centers" or orienting norms, and prevailed across many registers of thought, imagination, and practice in the 1950s, as well as the varieties of argument and expression that escaped inclusion within coherent wholes.</span>
- Autorenportrait
- <span>Casey Nelson Blake</span><span> is Mendelson Family Professor of American Studies at Columbia University.</span><span>Daniel H. Borus</span><span> is Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Rochester.</span><span>Howard Brick</span><span> is Louis Evans Professor of History at the University of Michigan.</span>