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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Página xii
... impulse and simply wanted me to be my “true self,” while I also felt perfectly at home in our suburban shopping mall, the only public square I knew. Perhaps because I grew up embodying the very therapeutic, consumer ethos laid bare in ...
... impulse and simply wanted me to be my “true self,” while I also felt perfectly at home in our suburban shopping mall, the only public square I knew. Perhaps because I grew up embodying the very therapeutic, consumer ethos laid bare in ...
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... impulse toward class revitalization was strongly reinforced by an unprecedented outpouring of racism among the middle and upper classes” and that the nineteenth- century strict “division of sexual roles” caused ambivalence, if not ...
... impulse toward class revitalization was strongly reinforced by an unprecedented outpouring of racism among the middle and upper classes” and that the nineteenth- century strict “division of sexual roles” caused ambivalence, if not ...
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... impulses overlapped with more up - to - date agenda for revitalization : the cult of the strenuous life preached by Theodore Roosevelt , the emergent popular therapies which promised selfregeneration through self - manipulation ...
... impulses overlapped with more up - to - date agenda for revitalization : the cult of the strenuous life preached by Theodore Roosevelt , the emergent popular therapies which promised selfregeneration through self - manipulation ...
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... impulse was both more socially and more intellectually important than historians have supposed . Antimodernism was not simply escapism ; it was ambivalent , often coexisting with enthusiasm for material progress . And it was part of a ...
... impulse was both more socially and more intellectually important than historians have supposed . Antimodernism was not simply escapism ; it was ambivalent , often coexisting with enthusiasm for material progress . And it was part of a ...
Página xxiv
... impulses reinforced the shift from a Protestant ethos of salvation through self - denial to a therapeutic ideal of self - fulfillment in this world through exuberant health and intense experience . The older morality embodied the ...
... impulses reinforced the shift from a Protestant ethos of salvation through self - denial to a therapeutic ideal of self - fulfillment in this world through exuberant health and intense experience . The older morality embodied the ...
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 |
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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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