The Ideas That Made America: A Brief History

ISBN-13: 9780190625368 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 232 str.

Jennifer (Merle Curti Associate Professor of History and Vil

Opis

Drawing on a variety of discourses, from religion, philosophy, and political thought, to cultural criticism, social theory, and the arts, American Thought: A Brief History shows how ideas have been major forces in American history, driving movements such as transcendentalism, Social Darwinism, conservatism, and postmodernism.

Recenzje

The Ideas that Made America captures the present state of the field at a pivotal moment, one which demands clarity about what kind of intellectual history we want, and what we want from intellectual history. Andrew Seal, Economics Department at the Paul College of Business and Economics at the University of New Hampshire, Society for U.S. Intellectual History

O autorze

Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen is the Merle Curti Associate Professor of History and Vilas-Borghesi Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she teaches U.S. intellectual and cultural history. She is the author of the prize-wining American Nietzsche: A History of an Icon and His Ideas (2012). Her co-edited volumes include Protest on the Page: Essays on Print and the Cultures of Dissent (2015) with James Danky and the late James Baughman, and The Worlds of American Intellectual History (2016) with Joel Isaac, James Kloppenberg, and the late Michael O'Brien. Her next book project is a history of wisdom in 20th-century American thought and culture.