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The Genteel Tradition
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Author : George Santayana
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 1998-01-01
The Genteel Tradition written by George Santayana and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-01-01 with Philosophy categories.
George Santayana probably did more than anyone except Alexis de Tocqueville to shape the critical view of American culture. The great Spanish philosopher and writer coined the phrase "genteel tradition", introducing it to a California audience in 1911. That address appears in this collection of nine essays touching on American idealism and materialism and American endeavor, sacred and profane.
The Genteel Tradition
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Author : George Santayana
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1967
The Genteel Tradition written by George Santayana and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1967 with National characteristics, American categories.
After The Genteel Tradition
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1967
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After The Genteel Tradition
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Author : Malcolm Cowley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1959
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The Genteel Tradition At Bay
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Author : George Santayana
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
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Genteel Tradition In American Philosophy And Character And Opinion In The United States
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Author : George Santayana
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2009-10-27
Genteel Tradition In American Philosophy And Character And Opinion In The United States written by George Santayana and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-27 with History categories.
This book brings together two seminal works by George Santayana, one of the most significant philosophers of the twentieth century: Character and Opinion in the United States, which stands with Tocqueville's Democracy in America as one the most insightful works of American cultural criticism ever written, and The Genteel Tradition in American Philosophy, a landmark text of both philosophical analysis and cultural criticism. An introduction by James Seaton situates Santayana in the intellectual and cultural context of his own time. Four additional essays include John Lachs on the ways Santayana's understanding of the soul of America help explain the relative peace among nationalities and ethnic groups in the United States; Wilfred M. McClay on Santayana's life of the mind as it relates to dominant trends in American culture; Roger Kimball on Santayana's most uncommon benefice, common sense; and James Seaton on Santayana's distinction between English liberty and fierce liberty. All the essays serve to highlight the relevance of Santayana's ideas to current issues in American culture, including education, immigration, and civil rights.
The Genteel Tradition And The Sacred Rage
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Author : Robert Dawidoff
language : en
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Release Date : 2000-11-09
The Genteel Tradition And The Sacred Rage written by Robert Dawidoff and has been published by Univ of North Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-11-09 with History categories.
Asking why many American intellectuals have had such difficulty accepting wholeheartedly the cultural dimensions of democracy, Robert Dawidoff examines their alienation and ambivalence, a tradition of detachment he identifies as "Tocquevillian." In the work of three towering American literary figures - Henry Adams, Henry James, and George Santayana -- Dawidoff explores fully this distancing and uneasy response to democratic culture. Linked together by common Harvard, Cambridge, and New England connections, and by an upper-class, Brahmin background, each of these three writers, Dawidoff argues, was at once self-critical and contemptuous of cultural democracy -- especially its indifference to them and what they represented. But their claims to detached observation of democratic culture must be viewed skeptically, Dawidoff warns, and borrowed with caution. An important contribution of the book is its integration of gay issues into American intellectual history. Viewing James's and Santayana's attitudes toward their homosexuality as affecting their views of American society, Dawidoff examines this significant and overlooked element in the American intellectual and cultural mix. Dawidoff also includes powerful new readings of Adams's Democracy and James's The Ambassadors and discusses Santayana's Americanist essays. In his foreward, Alan Trachtenberg notes the "taboo" that seems to have fallen over the word democracy. "It is rarely encountered anymore in humanistic studies," he says, " snubbed in favor of gender, class, race, region." This trend, he says, may be in part due to an unease about studying the culture in which we participate because the posture of the cutural critic implies a certain detachment. "The Genteel Tradition and the Sacred Rage returns the question of democracy to centerstage," he concludes, "not as political theory alone but as cultural and personal experience." Originally published in 1992. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
James Lane Allen And The Genteel Tradition
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Author : Grant C. Knight
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-10
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This is a new release of the original 1935 edition.
The Genteel Tradition
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Author : George Santayana
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1967
The Genteel Tradition written by George Santayana and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1967 with Social Science categories.
George Santayana probably did more than anyone except Alexis de Tocqueville to shape the critical view of American culture. The great Spanish philosopher and writer coined the phrase "genteel tradition", introducing it to a California audience in 1911. That address appears in this collection of nine essays touching on American idealism and materialism and American endeavor, sacred and profane.
Heiress Of All The Ages
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Author : William Wasserstrom
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 1959-01-01
Heiress Of All The Ages written by William Wasserstrom and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1959-01-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Heiress of All the Ages was first published in 1959. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. In a provocative study of American literature, Professor Wasserstrom reappraises the genteel tradition and its place in social and intellectual history. He shows that our image of this tradition has been inadequate, that most of our writers and critics have failed to recognize its profound effects. Basing his discussion primarily on a study of the major novelists of the period from 1830 to the present, the author examines the role of women in fiction and defines some of our national attitudes toward love. He discusses especially the world of Henry James (from whose phrase "heir of all the ages" the title of this book is derived), William Dean Howells, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Fenimore Cooper, Edith Wharton, and Robert Penn Warren. He also considers such well known novelists of their day as Bret Harte, Edgar Fawcett, Robert Herrick, Henry B. Fuller, Hamlin Garland, and Gertrude Atherton. In addition, his study is based on source material of the period: diaries, recipe books, family magazines, early issues of sociology and psychology journals, and travel books. This book will interest not only students of literature and history but also those in the general field of American civilization and sociologists and psychologists concerned with the relation of American literature to our mores.