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David A. Hollinger

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Description:In these discerning and widely ranging essays David A. Hollinger explores several of the major issues in the study of American intellectual history. Hollinger is especially concerned with the philosophical and political ideas of academic and literary intellectuals in the twentieth century. A second preoccupation...is the methodological presuppositions of the practice of intellectual history.…The unifying theme of the essays in this volume is the relationship of provincialism to cosmopolitanism in American intellectual life and in American historiography. Many of the individuals and groups studied by Hollinger have been inspired by the cosmopolitan ideal, and have complained that given aspects of their culture are 'provincial'. Yet for all this striving toward cosmopolitanism among American intellectuals, the scholarly study of ideas in America has often been parochial. Hollinger asks his colleagues to break down the conventional distinction between 'European' and 'American' thought, and to act more aggressively on the fact that American intellectual history is in many respects a province of the intellectual history of the Europe-centered West. Hollinger believes that students of American thought have restricted their field in ways that students of British, German, and French thought have not.I. Studies of Intellectuals in Modern America• William James and the Culture of Inquiry• The Problem of Pragmatism in American History• Science and Anarchy: Walter Lippmann's Drift and Mastery• Ethnic Diversity, Cosmopolitanism, and the Emergence of the American Liberal Intelligentsia• The Canon and Its Keepers: Modernism and Mid-Twentieth-Century American Intellectuals• Democracy and the Melting Pot ReconsideredII. Studies in Historiography• T.S. Kuhn's Theory of Science and Its Implications for History• Historians and the Discourse of Intellectuals• Perry Miller and Philosophical History• The Voice of Intellectual History in the Conversation of Mankind: A Note on Richard Rorty• American Intellectual History: Some Issues for the 1980s"American intellectual historians need to pay more attention to how elites relate to broader audiences. Hollinger's work is in the vanguard of recent intellectual history and it is a joy to observe a true intellectual in discourse with his peers." -- History: Reviews of Books.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with In the American Province: Studies in the History and Historiography of Ideas. To get started finding In the American Province: Studies in the History and Historiography of Ideas, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Release: 1985

ISBN: 0253329337

Description: In these discerning and widely ranging essays David A. Hollinger explores several of the major issues in the study of American intellectual history. Hollinger is especially concerned with the philosophical and political ideas of academic and literary intellectuals in the twentieth century. A second preoccupation...is the methodological presuppositions of the practice of intellectual history.…The unifying theme of the essays in this volume is the relationship of provincialism to cosmopolitanism in American intellectual life and in American historiography. Many of the individuals and groups studied by Hollinger have been inspired by the cosmopolitan ideal, and have complained that given aspects of their culture are 'provincial'. Yet for all this striving toward cosmopolitanism among American intellectuals, the scholarly study of ideas in America has often been parochial. Hollinger asks his colleagues to break down the conventional distinction between 'European' and 'American' thought, and to act more aggressively on the fact that American intellectual history is in many respects a province of the intellectual history of the Europe-centered West. Hollinger believes that students of American thought have restricted their field in ways that students of British, German, and French thought have not.I. Studies of Intellectuals in Modern America• William James and the Culture of Inquiry• The Problem of Pragmatism in American History• Science and Anarchy: Walter Lippmann's Drift and Mastery• Ethnic Diversity, Cosmopolitanism, and the Emergence of the American Liberal Intelligentsia• The Canon and Its Keepers: Modernism and Mid-Twentieth-Century American Intellectuals• Democracy and the Melting Pot ReconsideredII. Studies in Historiography• T.S. Kuhn's Theory of Science and Its Implications for History• Historians and the Discourse of Intellectuals• Perry Miller and Philosophical History• The Voice of Intellectual History in the Conversation of Mankind: A Note on Richard Rorty• American Intellectual History: Some Issues for the 1980s"American intellectual historians need to pay more attention to how elites relate to broader audiences. Hollinger's work is in the vanguard of recent intellectual history and it is a joy to observe a true intellectual in discourse with his peers." -- History: Reviews of Books.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with In the American Province: Studies in the History and Historiography of Ideas. To get started finding In the American Province: Studies in the History and Historiography of Ideas, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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