The Beginnings of Critical Realism in America: Main Currents in American ThoughtRoutledge, 29. 9. 2017 - 484 strán (strany) This final volume of Vernon Louis Parrington's Pultzer Prize-winning study deals with the decay of romantic optimism. It shows that the cause of decay is attributed to three sources: stratifying of economics under the pressure of centralization; the rise of mechanistic science; and the emergence of a spirit of skepticism which, with teachings of the sciences and lessons of intellectuals, has resulted in the questioning of democratic ideals. Parrington presents the movement of liberalism from 1913 to 1917, and the reaction to it following World War I. He notes that liberals announced that democratic hopes had not been fulfilled; the Constitution was not a democratic instrument nor was it intended to be; and while Americans had professed to create a democracy, they had in fact created a plutocracy. Industrialization of America under the leadership of the middle class and the rise of critical attitudes towards the ideals and handiwork of that class are examined in great detail. Parrington's interpretation of the literature during this time focuses on four divisions of development: the conquest of America by the middle class; the challenge of that overlordship by democratic agrarianism; the intellectual revolution brought about by science and the appropriation of science by the middle class; and the rise of detached criticism by younger intellectuals. A new introduction by Bruce Brown highlights Parrington's life and explains the importance of this volume. |
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... individual, so sensitively adjusted to the freighted thought, is hardly to be hoped for; and more important, that another scholar could accurately reproduce his interpretation is an assumption not to be warranted. The decision to ...
... individual integrity, the necessity for cre— ative expression, and the reaflirmation of what some may choose to call spiritual values. - In effect he believed that all is not lost. Through the influence of science we are recovering the ...
... individual, in the presence of creature comforts, is being dwarfed; the drift of centralization is shaping its inevitable tyrannies to bind us with. Whether the quick concern for human rights, that was the noble bequest of our fathers ...
... individual liberty,” he wrote, “and if the small man were free to enjoy his petty privilege, the greater interests might preempt unchallenged Where the policy of preemption has run its course, the function of government is seduced from ...
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Changes in traditional economies after the Civil War The rise | 3 |
THE AMERICAN SCENE | 33 |
43 | 169 |
48 | 176 |
PART II | 185 |
The flower of | 212 |
In the eighties realism begins to excite | 237 |
PART I | 259 |
THE QUEsT 0F UTOPIA | 301 |
on the gay horizon of American optimism Changes | 316 |
ADDENDA | 323 |
PART III | 328 |
19171924 | 373 |
Some War Books | 384 |
The Short Story | 397 |
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