No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture, 1880-1920University of Chicago Press, 2021 M08 26 - 408 páginas A new edition of a classic work of American history that eloquently examines the rise of antimodernism at the turn of the twentieth century. First published in 1981, T. J. Jackson Lears’s No Place of Grace is a landmark book in American studies and American history, acclaimed for both its rigorous research and the deft fluidity of its prose. A study of responses to the emergent culture of corporate capitalism at the turn of the twentieth century, No Place of Grace charts the development of contemporary consumer society through the embrace of antimodernism—the effort among middle- and upper-class Americans to recapture feelings of authentic experience. Rather than offer true resistance to the increasingly corporatized bureaucracy of the time, however, antimodernism helped accommodate Americans to the new order—it was therapeutic rather than oppositional, a striking forerunner to today’s self-help culture. And yet antimodernism contributed a new dynamic as well, “an eloquent edge of protest,” as Lears puts it, which is evident even today in anticonsumerism, sustainable living, and other practices. This new edition, with a lively and discerning foreword by Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen, celebrates the fortieth anniversary of this singular work of history. |
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... became business as usual in the '70s.” Kendrick had watched his generation's “militancy slouch into acquiescence, our self- discovery dwindle to self- help, our swords get beaten into cokespoons” and wondered how such earnest protest ...
... became business as usual in the '70s.” Kendrick had watched his generation's “militancy slouch into acquiescence, our self- discovery dwindle to self- help, our swords get beaten into cokespoons” and wondered how such earnest protest ...
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... became a keyword in disciplinary history in the 1990s. Lears's dramatis personae were as deeply rooted in the imagined worlds of medieval Europe and Meiji Japan as they were in the turn- of- the- twentieth- century northeast US. Thus he ...
... became a keyword in disciplinary history in the 1990s. Lears's dramatis personae were as deeply rooted in the imagined worlds of medieval Europe and Meiji Japan as they were in the turn- of- the- twentieth- century northeast US. Thus he ...
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... became assimilated - largely if not entirely — to a new idiom of domination . The new idiom was therapeutic rather than religious ; it promised self - fulfillment through intense experience rather than salvation through self - denial ...
... became assimilated - largely if not entirely — to a new idiom of domination . The new idiom was therapeutic rather than religious ; it promised self - fulfillment through intense experience rather than salvation through self - denial ...
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... became less a path to satisfying communal work than a therapy for tired businessmen . The martial ideal ennobled not a quest for the Grail but a quest for foreign markets . Even Catholic mysticism , art , and ritual were adjusted to ...
... became less a path to satisfying communal work than a therapy for tired businessmen . The martial ideal ennobled not a quest for the Grail but a quest for foreign markets . Even Catholic mysticism , art , and ritual were adjusted to ...
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... became common in the wider society . Throughout this study I have tried to use a variety of interdisciplinary skills : a sensitivity to the nuance , tone , and argument of historical " texts ” ; an attentiveness to the family tensions ...
... became common in the wider society . Throughout this study I have tried to use a variety of interdisciplinary skills : a sensitivity to the nuance , tone , and argument of historical " texts ” ; an attentiveness to the family tensions ...
Contenido
Medieval Mentalities in a Modern World | 141 |
Catholic Forms and American Consciousness | 183 |
Patterns of Ambivalence | 217 |
Henry Adams | 261 |
Epilogue | 299 |
Biographical Appendix | 313 |
Notes | 325 |
Index | 365 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture ... T. J. Jackson Lears Vista previa limitada - 2021 |
No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture ... T. J. Jackson Lears Vista previa limitada - 1994 |
No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture ... T. J. Jackson Lears Vista de fragmentos - 1981 |
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