The Beginnings of Critical Realism in America: Main Currents in American ThoughtTransaction Publishers, 31. 5. 2013 - 484 strán (strany) This final volume of Vernon Louis Parringtonâ 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. Parringtonâ 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 Parringtonâ s life and explains the importance of this volume. |
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... culture potentialities that inhere in individual variation from type, and I realize that the arts are likely to receive their noblest gifts from men who should be classed biologically as cultural sports or variations from the cultural ...
... culture potentialities that inhere in individual variation from type, and I realize that the arts are likely to receive their noblest gifts from men who should be classed biologically as cultural sports or variations from the cultural ...
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... culture it represented, Parrington also wanted more time for personal questing. As William Allen White recalled in his Pulitzer Prize winning autobiography, Parxxxiii INTRODUCTION TO THE TRANSACTION EDITION rington was part of a.
... culture it represented, Parrington also wanted more time for personal questing. As William Allen White recalled in his Pulitzer Prize winning autobiography, Parxxxiii INTRODUCTION TO THE TRANSACTION EDITION rington was part of a.
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... culture, Main Currents in American Thought, were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for history. He was felled by a heart attack the next year, but his influence continued to grow posthumously. By 1940, even Lionel Trilling, who was highly ...
... culture, Main Currents in American Thought, were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for history. He was felled by a heart attack the next year, but his influence continued to grow posthumously. By 1940, even Lionel Trilling, who was highly ...
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... cultural analysis. “When I quitted Norman the economic interpretation of history had not yet risen for me,” Parrington wrote, “but it lay just below the horizon and was soon to become the chief luminary in my intellectual sky.” One ...
... cultural analysis. “When I quitted Norman the economic interpretation of history had not yet risen for me,” Parrington wrote, “but it lay just below the horizon and was soon to become the chief luminary in my intellectual sky.” One ...
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... culture, rather than some academic aesthetic schema. We now take both of these perceptions so much for granted that ... cultural value, democracy. “And indeed in this country, with its long history of democratic as- piration, why should ...
... culture, rather than some academic aesthetic schema. We now take both of these perceptions so much for granted that ... cultural value, democracy. “And indeed in this country, with its long history of democratic as- piration, why should ...
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THE GILDED AGE | 7 |
NEW PATTERNS OF THOUGHT | 189 |
THE OLD AND THE NEW | 255 |
THE MIDDLE BORDER RISES | 259 |
PROLETARIAN HOPES | 301 |
ADDENDA | 323 |
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