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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... democratic society provides for the free exercise of personal rights. Elevating oneself by riding on the shoulders of others, a common device of the pseudo— aristocrat, was to him but a vulgar gymnastic performance. When he described ...
... democratic society provides for the free exercise of personal rights. Elevating oneself by riding on the shoulders of others, a common device of the pseudo— aristocrat, was to him but a vulgar gymnastic performance. When he described ...
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... Democrats in an attack upon the intrenchments of capitalism. As Parrington saw it, these agrarian descendants of ... democracy, until they cast such a fog of sentiment over the scene as to blur all the realities. But the true spirit of ...
... Democrats in an attack upon the intrenchments of capitalism. As Parrington saw it, these agrarian descendants of ... democracy, until they cast such a fog of sentiment over the scene as to blur all the realities. But the true spirit of ...
Strana xiii
... democratic hopes of earlier days had not been fulfilled, that the Constitution is not a demOcratic instrument nor was it intended to be, and that while Americans were professing to create a democracy, they had been creating in fact a ...
... democratic hopes of earlier days had not been fulfilled, that the Constitution is not a demOcratic instrument nor was it intended to be, and that while Americans were professing to create a democracy, they had been creating in fact a ...
Strana xix
... democratic programs and faith in a benevolent progress. The present volume deals with the slow decay of this ... democracy as it has been commonly held hitherto, and the spread of a spirit of pessimism. The custodianship of America by ...
... democratic programs and faith in a benevolent progress. The present volume deals with the slow decay of this ... democracy as it has been commonly held hitherto, and the spread of a spirit of pessimism. The custodianship of America by ...
Strana xxiii
... democratic state into the servant of property interests. Both political parties contented themselves with an egoistic individualism that took no account of social ends, forgetful of the humanitarian spirit that underlay the earlier ...
... democratic state into the servant of property interests. Both political parties contented themselves with an egoistic individualism that took no account of social ends, forgetful of the humanitarian spirit that underlay the earlier ...
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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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