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At the Center

- American Thought and Culture in the Mid-Twentieth Century
Af: Howard Brick Howard Brick, Daniel H. Borus, Casey Nelson Blake Engelsk Paperback

At the Center

- American Thought and Culture in the Mid-Twentieth Century
Af: Howard Brick Howard Brick, Daniel H. Borus, Casey Nelson Blake Engelsk Paperback
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At a time when American political and cultural leaders asserted that the nation stood at “the center of world awareness,” thinkers and artists sought to understand and secure principles that lay at the center of things. From the onset of the Cold War in 1948 through 1963, they asked: What defined the essential character of “American culture”? Could permanent moral standards guide human conduct amid the flux and horrors of history? In what ways did a stable self emerge through the life cycle? Could scientific method rescue truth from error, illusion, and myth? Are there key elements to democracy, to the integrity of a society, to order in the world? Answers to such questions promised intellectual and moral stability in an age haunted by the memory of world war and the possibility of future devastation on an even greater scale. Yet other key figures rejected the search for a center, asserting that freedom lay in the dispersion of cultural energies and the plurality of American experiences. In probing the centering impulse of the era, At the Center offers a unique perspective on the United States at the pinnacle of its power.
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At a time when American political and cultural leaders asserted that the nation stood at “the center of world awareness,” thinkers and artists sought to understand and secure principles that lay at the center of things. From the onset of the Cold War in 1948 through 1963, they asked: What defined the essential character of “American culture”? Could permanent moral standards guide human conduct amid the flux and horrors of history? In what ways did a stable self emerge through the life cycle? Could scientific method rescue truth from error, illusion, and myth? Are there key elements to democracy, to the integrity of a society, to order in the world? Answers to such questions promised intellectual and moral stability in an age haunted by the memory of world war and the possibility of future devastation on an even greater scale. Yet other key figures rejected the search for a center, asserting that freedom lay in the dispersion of cultural energies and the plurality of American experiences. In probing the centering impulse of the era, At the Center offers a unique perspective on the United States at the pinnacle of its power.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 358
ISBN-13: 9781538158432
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1538158434
Kategori: United States of America, USA
Udg. Dato: 10 maj 2021
Længde: 19mm
Bredde: 154mm
Højde: 218mm
Forlag: Rowman & Littlefield
Oplagsdato: 10 maj 2021
Forfatter(e): Howard Brick Howard Brick, Daniel H. Borus, Casey Nelson Blake
Forfatter(e) Howard Brick Howard Brick, Daniel H. Borus, Casey Nelson Blake

Kategori United States of America, USA

ISBN-13 9781538158432

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 358

Udgave

Længde 19mm

Bredde 154mm

Højde 218mm

Udg. Dato 10 maj 2021

Oplagsdato 10 maj 2021

Forlag Rowman & Littlefield