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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... interpretation is an assumption not to be warranted. The decision to publish the author's incomplete work is a tribute to his brilliance. Nevertheless it is possible to know Professor Parrington's chief intentions, particularly when one ...
... interpretation is an assumption not to be warranted. The decision to publish the author's incomplete work is a tribute to his brilliance. Nevertheless it is possible to know Professor Parrington's chief intentions, particularly when one ...
Strana vii
... interpretation. What were these histories ofAmerican literature.P Sprawling lists of names arranged in a fashion that gave little save conventionalized data and some dubious evaluations. Already there was a Widespread demand for a new ...
... interpretation. What were these histories ofAmerican literature.P Sprawling lists of names arranged in a fashion that gave little save conventionalized data and some dubious evaluations. Already there was a Widespread demand for a new ...
Strana viii
... interpretation and vitiated my analysis is not for me to determine.” Professor Parrington's M ain Current: in American Thought has, then, for its subject the adventures of American liberalism. To anyone alive to the issue an adventurous ...
... interpretation and vitiated my analysis is not for me to determine.” Professor Parrington's M ain Current: in American Thought has, then, for its subject the adventures of American liberalism. To anyone alive to the issue an adventurous ...
Strana xix
... interpret that opinion, should now be sufficiently clear. The volume immediately preceding the present one dealt with the romantic revolution in America—one of the most stimulating experiences the American mind has undergone—which was ...
... interpret that opinion, should now be sufficiently clear. The volume immediately preceding the present one dealt with the romantic revolution in America—one of the most stimulating experiences the American mind has undergone—which was ...
Strana xxiv
... interpretations.' Interpreted by the coonskin Jacksonians it meant political equalitarianism; by the slave economy it meant a Greek democracy; by the industrial economy it meant the right of exploitation. It has changed service with ...
... interpretations.' Interpreted by the coonskin Jacksonians it meant political equalitarianism; by the slave economy it meant a Greek democracy; by the industrial economy it meant the right of exploitation. It has changed service with ...
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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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