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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... In the decades immediately following the Civil War democracy passed under the custodianship of the middle class, who were busily engaged in creating a plumeracy, and the major ideas of the earlier movement took on xxiv INTRODUCTION.
... In the decades immediately following the Civil War democracy passed under the custodianship of the middle class, who were busily engaged in creating a plumeracy, and the major ideas of the earlier movement took on xxiv INTRODUCTION.
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... middle class and its custodianship of democracy. The philosophy of the middle class. II. The challenge of that overlordship by: I. The older democratic agrarianism as expressed chiefly in the third-party movements. 2. The new ...
... middle class and its custodianship of democracy. The philosophy of the middle class. II. The challenge of that overlordship by: I. The older democratic agrarianism as expressed chiefly in the third-party movements. 2. The new ...
Strana xxvii
... middle class and the final defeat of the traditional agrarianism. The disintegration of the earlier romanticisms, both native and imported, has run its course. The philosophy of Jefferson and John Taylor, with its physiocratic bias, its ...
... middle class and the final defeat of the traditional agrarianism. The disintegration of the earlier romanticisms, both native and imported, has run its course. The philosophy of Jefferson and John Taylor, with its physiocratic bias, its ...
Strana xxviii
... middle class; third, that we must take our bearings afresh and set forth on a different path to the goal. As these convictions slowly rose into consciousness, a quick suspicion of our earlier philosophies arose to trouble us. With the ...
... middle class; third, that we must take our bearings afresh and set forth on a different path to the goal. As these convictions slowly rose into consciousness, a quick suspicion of our earlier philosophies arose to trouble us. With the ...
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... Middle Border, accurately pictured every “detail of ugliness and discomfort” of the years he spent on the farm outside Americus, but added that for him the life was not an entirely drab or hopeless existence. “It was filled with ...
... Middle Border, accurately pictured every “detail of ugliness and discomfort” of the years he spent on the farm outside Americus, but added that for him the life was not an entirely drab or hopeless existence. “It was filled 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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