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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... economic realities that underlie and determine them. The method was so fruitful of results that it quickly spread to a group of American political scientists, from whose findings much of Parrington's significant work received its first ...
... economic realities that underlie and determine them. The method was so fruitful of results that it quickly spread to a group of American political scientists, from whose findings much of Parrington's significant work received its first ...
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... economic determinism when applied even to literature. A third idea completed the synthesis. When he envisaged American literature as American thought, the trammel of the belletristic was broken and he was free to reevaluate American ...
... economic determinism when applied even to literature. A third idea completed the synthesis. When he envisaged American literature as American thought, the trammel of the belletristic was broken and he was free to reevaluate American ...
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... economic realities but cynically brutalized them. Failure was the inevitable result; the liberals despair While Babbitt, regnant, infests the country with his blustering agents. In the unfinished section of this last volume it was ...
... economic realities but cynically brutalized them. Failure was the inevitable result; the liberals despair While Babbitt, regnant, infests the country with his blustering agents. In the unfinished section of this last volume it was ...
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... economics and politics. Such relations made necessary the Control of property by the collective will, and to that end ... economic, political, and social institutions of America. Of these critics Parrington considered Randolph Bourne and ...
... economics and politics. Such relations made necessary the Control of property by the collective will, and to that end ... economic, political, and social institutions of America. Of these critics Parrington considered Randolph Bourne and ...
Strana xiv
... economics. Winston Churchill9 had discovered the emptiness of the profit motive with its resultant destruction of beauty ... economic democracy which liberals had marked for their goal was now attacked by the younger intellectuals. H. L. ...
... economics. Winston Churchill9 had discovered the emptiness of the profit motive with its resultant destruction of beauty ... economic democracy which liberals had marked for their goal was now attacked by the younger intellectuals. H. L. ...
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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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