The Beginnings of Critical Realism in America: Main Currents in American ThoughtVernon Parrington Routledge, 29. 9. 2017 - 484 strán (strany) This final volume of Vernon Louis Parrington'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. Parrington'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 Parrington's life and explains the importance of this volume. |
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... experiences the American mind has undergone—which was traced to twin forces: the influence upon an expansive ... experience we have returned, intellectually, to the point from which we set out, and the old philosophy brought to ...
... experience and will follow the main divisions of development. I. The conquest of America by the middle class and its custodianship of democracy. The philosophy of the middle class. II. The challenge of that overlordship by: 1. The older ...
... experiences of my life I value none more than this. In the most receptive years of my life I came under the influence of ... the frontier with its democratic sympathies and democratic economies. From that influence I have never been ...
... experiences of youth. In that moment new fields, fresh interests were opened to me, and thereafter I was assiduous in practice until I could throw a curve that the most skeptical must acknowledge.” More than that, he quickly developed ...
... experience was in some ways an ordeal, as is immediately apparent from Parrington's description of his introduction to the town and campus. “A searing wind blew great dust clouds from the southwest as I stepped off the train and started ...