George Cotkin

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Reluctant Modernism: American Thought and Culture, 1880-1900Paperback, 15 September 2004

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American Thought and Culture
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American Thought and Culture (Paperback)
Print Length
204 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Date Published
15 Sep 2004
ISBN-10
0742531473
ISBN-13
9780742531475

Description

In the last two decades of the nineteenth century, Americans were faced with the challenges and uncertainties of a new era. The comfortable Victorian values of continuity, progress, and order clashed with the unsettling modern notions of constant change, relative truth, and chaos. Attempting to embrace the intellectual challenges of modernism, American thinkers of the day were yet reluctant to welcome the wholesale rejection of the past and destruction of traditional values. In Reluctant Modernism: American Thought and Culture, 1880-1900, George Cotkin surveys the intellectual life of this crucial transitional period. His story begins with the Darwinian controversies, since the mainstream of American culture was just beginning to come to grips with the implications of the Origins of Species, published in 1859. Cotkin demonstrates the effects of this shift in thinking on philosophy, anthropology, and the newly developing field of psychology. Drawing on his extensive knowledge of these fields, he explains clearly and concisely the essential tenets of such major thinkers and writers as William James, Franz Boas, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Henry Adams, and Kate Chopin. Throughout this fascinating, readable history of the American fin de siècle run the contrasting themes of continuity and change, faith and rationalism, despair over the meaninglessness of life and, ultimately, a guarded optimism about the future.

Product Details

Author:
George Cotkin
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
15 September 2004
Dimensions:
22.86 x 15.24 x 1.12 cm
Genre:
19th Century
ISBN-10:
0742531473
ISBN-13:
9780742531475
Language:
English
Pages:
204
Weight:
281.23 gm

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