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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... movements the farmers tried to inject such reforms as the initiative and referendum, the recall, the direct primary, and the income tax; until, seduced by Bryan's oratory, they joined with the Democrats in an attack upon the ...
... movements the farmers tried to inject such reforms as the initiative and referendum, the recall, the direct primary, and the income tax; until, seduced by Bryan's oratory, they joined with the Democrats in an attack upon the ...
Strana xiii
... movement of liberalism from 1903 to 1917, and the reaction to it following the war. Parrington called this period of liberalism the “great stock-taking venture.” These liberals announced that the democratic hopes of earlier days had not ...
... movement of liberalism from 1903 to 1917, and the reaction to it following the war. Parrington called this period of liberalism the “great stock-taking venture.” These liberals announced that the democratic hopes of earlier days had not ...
Strana xv
... movement enlisting first-class minds ——intellectuals, poets, novelists, dramatists—revealed clearly to him the increasing criticism of a dehumanized economics, and such criticism proceeds from an implicit liberalism. The attack on the ...
... movement enlisting first-class minds ——intellectuals, poets, novelists, dramatists—revealed clearly to him the increasing criticism of a dehumanized economics, and such criticism proceeds from an implicit liberalism. The attack on the ...
Strana xxiv
... movement that asserted the ideal of political democracy; the Jacksonian movement that established it crudely in practice; and the successive thirdparty movements that attempted to regain such ground as had been lost, to extend the field ...
... movement that asserted the ideal of political democracy; the Jacksonian movement that established it crudely in practice; and the successive thirdparty movements that attempted to regain such ground as had been lost, to extend the field ...
Strana xxv
... movement took on a characteristic middle-class coloring. The idea of a beneficent progress, which was the flower of the doctrine of human perfectibility, came to be interpreted as material expansion with constantly augmenting profits ...
... movement took on a characteristic middle-class coloring. The idea of a beneficent progress, which was the flower of the doctrine of human perfectibility, came to be interpreted as material expansion with constantly augmenting profits ...
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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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