At the Center - Casey Nelson Blake, Daniel H. Borus,  Howard Brick

At the Center

American Thought and Culture in the Mid-Twentieth Century
Buch | Softcover
358 Seiten
2021
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-5381-5843-2 (ISBN)
47,35 inkl. MwSt
At the Center explores the mode of perception and reflection which grasped at consensus and sought to determine “centers” or orienting norms, and prevailed across many registers of thought, imagination, and practice in the 1950s, as well as the varieties of argument and expression that escaped inclusion within coherent wholes.
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.

Casey Nelson Blake is Mendelson Family Professor of American Studies at Columbia University. Daniel H. Borus is Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Rochester. Howard Brick is Louis Evans Professor of History at the University of Michigan.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie American Thought and Culture
Verlagsort Lanham, MD
Sprache englisch
Maße 154 x 218 mm
Gewicht 485 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Zeitgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10 1-5381-5843-4 / 1538158434
ISBN-13 978-1-5381-5843-2 / 9781538158432
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