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Format: XIII, 441 S.

ISBN: 0-415-95265-4 , 0-415-95264-6 , 978-0-415-95265-1 , 978-0-415-95264-4

Language: English

Subjects: Sociology

Keywords: Intellektueller ; Biografie ; Aufsatzsammlung

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URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis

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Format: XVII, 252 S.

ISBN: 978-0-520-24919-6 , 978-0-520-25071-0

Content: American liberalism today is in a state of confusion and disarray, with the "L word" widely considered a term of derision. By examining both the historical past and the fractious present, Liberalism for a New Century restores a proud political tradition and carves out a formidable defense of its philosophical tenets. This manifesto for a New Liberalism issues an urgent and cogent call for the most important rethinking of its values since the late 1960s, when conservatives reenergized themselves after Barry Goldwater's infamous loss. The essays in this volume, most of them never before published, are written by a leading group of historians, journalists, and public intellectuals. Some of the nation's most highly respected liberal minds explore such topics as the classical liberal tradition, postmodernism's challenge to the American "Enlightenment," the civil rights era, the influence of twentieth-century radicals on American liberalism, the 1950s, tolerance, the cold war, and whether liberalism should have a large and aggressive vision. One essay considers liberalism in Iran and what American liberals might learn from this movement. Fast-paced and encompassing such hot-button issues as the family and religion, here are ringside-seat arguments between people who don't often get to engage with one another: right-leaning liberals like Peter Berkowitz and John Patrick Diggins, and leftier liberals like Michael Tomasky and Mona Harrington. The result is a lively and stimulating collection that articulates a clear-minded alternative to the conservative ascendancy in American history and offers a timely and essential contribution to the growing national debate.

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index

Language: English

Subjects: Political Science

Keywords: Liberalismus ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung

URL: Table of contents only

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URL: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip076/2006100940.html

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Format: XVIII, 328 S. : Ill.

ISBN: 0-8078-2448-8

Content: Historian Henry Steele Commager (1902-98) was one of the leading American intellectuals of the mid-twentieth century. Author or editor of more than forty books, he taught for decades at New York University, Columbia University, and Amherst College and was a pioneer in the field of American studies. But Commager's work was by no means confined to the halls of the university: a popular essayist, lecturer, and political commentator, he earned a reputation as an activist for liberal causes and waged public campaigns against McCarthyism in the 1950s and the Vietnam War in the 1960s. In this book, Neil Jumonville uses Commager's career to explore a number of themes central to the intellectual history of postwar America. Examining the relationship between the midcentury generation of scholars and the baby boomer generation now in the university, he reassesses the legacy of the 1940s and 1950s and illuminates the background of the culture wars of today. He also offers a reevaluation of the ideas in the liberalism of the period, including a common American identity and shared culture, pragmatism, compromise, freedom of speech, and the benefits of at least a modest consensus on goals - ideas that in recent years have taken quite a beating in the public arena.

Language: English

Subjects: American Studies

Keywords: 1902-1998 Commager, Henry Steele ; Biografie ; Biografie

URL: http://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0b3r5-aa

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Format: 1 online resource (271 p.)

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 9786612360190 , 1-282-36019-1 , 0-520-94056-3

Content: American liberalism today is in a state of confusion and disarray, with the "L word" widely considered a term of derision. By examining both the historical past and the fractious present, Liberalism for a New Century restores a proud political tradition and carves out a formidable defense of its philosophical tenets. This manifesto for a New Liberalism issues an urgent and cogent call for the most important rethinking of its values since the late 1960's, when conservatives reenergized themselves after Barry Goldwater's infamous loss. The essays in this volume, most of them never before published, are written by a leading group of historians, journalists, and public intellectuals. Some of the nation's most highly respected liberal minds explore such topics as the classical liberal tradition, postmodernism's challenge to the American "Enlightenment," the civil rights era, the influence of twentieth-century radicals on American liberalism, the 1950's, tolerance, the cold war, and whether liberalism should have a large and aggressive vision. One essay considers liberalism in Iran and what American liberals might learn from this movement. Fast-paced and encompassing such hot-button issues as the family and religion, here are ringside-seat arguments between people who don't often get to engage with one another: right-leaning liberals like Peter Berkowitz and John Patrick Diggins, and leftier liberals like Michael Tomasky and Mona Harrington. The result is a lively and stimulating collection that articulates a clear-minded alternative to the conservative ascendancy in American history and offers a timely and essential contribution to the growing national debate.

Note: Description based upon print version of record. , Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Foreword -- , Introduction: Liberalism, Past And Future Tense -- , 1. The Liberal Spirit In America And Its Paradoxes -- , 2. The Contemporary Critique Of The Enlightenment: Its Irrelevance To America And Liberalism -- , 3. Liberalism And The Conservative Imagination -- , 4 Liberalism And Belief -- , 5. Liberal Tolerance At Middle Age -- , 6. Liberalism And Democracy: A Troubled Marriage -- , 7. What Liberals Owe To Radicals -- , 8. Liberalism, Science, And The Future Of Evolution -- , 9. Liberalism And Family Values -- , 10. Liberalism And Religion -- , 11. Liberalism, Environmentalism, And The Promise Of National Greatness -- , 12. Liberalism, Internationalism, And Iran Today -- , 13. Beyond Iraq: Toward A New Liberal Internationalism -- , Notes -- , Contributors -- , Index , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-520-24919-4

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-520-25071-0

Language: English

Keywords: Electronic books

DOI: 10.1525/9780520940567

URL: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=470863

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Format: xviii, 328 p. : , ill.

Edition: Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

Language: English

Keywords: Electronic books.

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Format: xvii, 252 p.

Edition: Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

Language: English

Keywords: Electronic books.

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Format: XIX, 291 S. : , Ill.

ISBN: 0-520-06858-0

Language: English

Subjects: American Studies

Keywords: Intellektueller

URL: http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=002707552&sequence=000002&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA

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Format: 1 online resource (xix, 291 p., [20] p. of plates ) , ill. ;

ISBN: 0-585-11542-7

Note: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph , The view from the Waldorf -- Affirmers and dissenters -- Pragmatism and the repentant sense of life -- Mass culture and the intellectual -- The New York Group and the New Left -- The view from the Plaza. , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-520-06858-0

Language: English

Keywords: History.

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Format: 1 online resource (xix, 291 p., [20] p. of plates ) , ill. ;

ISBN: 0-585-11542-7

Note: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph , The view from the Waldorf -- Affirmers and dissenters -- Pragmatism and the repentant sense of life -- Mass culture and the intellectual -- The New York Group and the New Left -- The view from the Plaza. , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-520-06858-0

Language: English

Keywords: History.

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Format: Online-Ressource (xviii, 328 p) , ill

Edition: Online-Ausg. [S.l.] HathiTrust Digital Library 2010 Electronic reproduction

ISBN: 080786109X , 9780807861097

Content: Historian Henry Steele Commager (1902-98) was one of the leading American intellectuals of the mid-twentieth century. Author or editor of more than forty books, he taught for decades at New York University, Columbia University, and Amherst College and was a pioneer in the field of American studies. But Commager's work was by no means confined to the halls of the university: a popular essayist, lecturer, and political commentator, he earned a reputation as an activist for liberal causes and waged public campaigns against McCarthyism in the 1950s and the Vietnam War in the 1960s. In this book, Neil Jumonville uses Commager's career to explore a number of themes central to the intellectual history of postwar America. Examining the relationship between the midcentury generation of scholars and the baby boomer generation now in the university, he reassesses the legacy of the 1940s and 1950s and illuminates the background of the culture wars of today. He also offers a reevaluation of the ideas in the liberalism of the period, including a common American identity and shared culture, pragmatism, compromise, freedom of speech, and the benefits of at least a modest consensus on goals - ideas that in recent years have taken quite a beating in the public arena

Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-317) and index , Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL , ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Notes""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""I. Intellectuals and Historians""; ""1. The Formation of a Public Intellectual, 1902-1932""; ""Notes""; ""2. Philosophy Teaching by Experience, 1928-1936""; ""Notes""; ""3. Columbia and New York in the Forties, 1938-1950""; ""Notes""; ""II. Freedom and the American Century""; ""4. Protecting Liberalism in World War ii, 1939-1947""; ""Notes""; ""5. Anticommunism and McCarthyism, 1945-1960""; ""Notes""; ""6. University, Family, and Race, 1945-1968""; ""Notes""; ""7. The Call to Political Morality, 1964-1974""; ""Notes"" , ""III. The Meaning of the American Past""""8. The Character and Myth of Historians at Midcentury, 1937-1997""; ""Notes""; ""9. Liberals and the Historical Past, 1948-1997""; ""Notes""; ""10. Legacies, 1971-1997""; ""Notes""; ""Notes""; ""Abbreviations used in the Notes""; ""Index"" , Electronic reproduction

Additional Edition: ISBN 0807824488

Additional Edition: ISBN 9780807824481

Additional Edition: Print version Henry Steele Commager

Language: English

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