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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... intellectuals, is resulting in the questioning of the ideal of democracy as it has been commonly held hitherto, and the ... intellectual history thus conceived falls into three broad phases: Calvinistic pessimism, romantic optimism, and ...
... intellectuals, is resulting in the questioning of the ideal of democracy as it has been commonly held hitherto, and the ... intellectual history thus conceived falls into three broad phases: Calvinistic pessimism, romantic optimism, and ...
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... intellectual is in revolt, the conscience of America is in revolt. . a 0 o o o o It ought not to be necessary to add that in these volumes I have not essayed to write a history of American literature——that rather difficult task for ...
... intellectual is in revolt, the conscience of America is in revolt. . a 0 o o o o It ought not to be necessary to add that in these volumes I have not essayed to write a history of American literature——that rather difficult task for ...
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... intellectual revolution brought about by science with the results: I. The recovery of a spirit of realism. 2. The appropriation of science by the middle class. IV. The rise of a detached criticism by the younger intellectuals. In ...
... intellectual revolution brought about by science with the results: I. The recovery of a spirit of realism. 2. The appropriation of science by the middle class. IV. The rise of a detached criticism by the younger intellectuals. In ...
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... intellectuals of a drab generation—— who embody the mind of present-day America; not the professional custodians of ... intellectual currents of later America—to their aspirations as well as to their criticisms. Literature at last has ...
... intellectuals of a drab generation—— who embody the mind of present-day America; not the professional custodians of ... intellectual currents of later America—to their aspirations as well as to their criticisms. Literature at last has ...
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... intellectual curiosity that was a life-long characteristic carried him from Victorian poets to the arts and architecture to English and American literature to political science and the history of ideas, and finally landed him on shores ...
... intellectual curiosity that was a life-long characteristic carried him from Victorian poets to the arts and architecture to English and American literature to political science and the history of ideas, and finally landed him on shores ...
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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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