Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xxviii, 375 pages)
ISBN:
9780226794587
Inhalt:
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword by Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen -- Preface (1983) -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Roots of Antimodernism: The Crisis of Cultural Authority During the Late Nineteenth Century -- A Pattern of Evasive Banality: Official Modern Culture in Industrial America -- A Social Crisis: The Republican Tradition and the Radical Specter -- Unreal City: Social Science, Secularization, and the Emergence of Weightlessness -- Psychic Crisis: Neurasthenia and the Emergence of a Therapeutic World View -- 2. The Figure of the Artisan: Arts and Crafts Ideology -- Origins of the American Craft Revival: Persons and Perceptions -- Revitalization and Transformation in Arts and Crafts Ideology: The Simple Life, Aestheticism, Educational Reform -- Reversing Antimodernism: The Factory, the Market, and the Process of Rationalization -- The Fate of the Craft Ideal -- 3. The Destructive Element: Modern Commercial Society and the Martial Ideal -- From Domestic Realism to "Real Life" -- Class, Race, and the Worship of Force -- The Psychological Uses of the Martial Ideal: The Cult of Experience and the Quest for Authentic Selfhood -- The Psychological Uses of the Martial Ideal: Guiney, Norris, Adams -- 4. The Morning of Belief: Medieval Mentalities in a Modern World -- The Image of Childhood and the Childhood of the Race -- Medieval Sincerity: Genteel and Robust -- Medieval Vitality: The Erotic Union of Sacred and Profane -- The Medieval Unconscious: Therapy and Protest -- 5. The Religion of Beauty: Catholic Forms and American Consciousness -- The Rise of Catholic Taste: Cultural Authority and Personal Regeneration -- Art, Ritual, and Belief: The Protestant Dilemma -- American Anglo-Catholicism: Legitimation and Protest -- The Poles of Anglicanism: Cram and Scudder -- 6. From Patriarchy to Nirvana: Patterns of Ambivalence.
Inhalt:
"T. J. Jackson Lears's No Place of Grace is a landmark book in the fields of American Studies and history, known for its rigorous research and original, near-literary style. A study of responses to the culture of corporate capitalism at the turn of the twentieth century, No Place of Grace charts the development of modern consumer society through the embrace of antimodernism, the effort among many middle and upper class Americans to recapture feelings of authenticity, vigor, depth, and connection. Rather than offer true resistance to the increasing corporate bureaucratization of the time, however, antimodernism helped accommodate Americans to the new order-it was therapeutic rather than oppositional, a 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 edition, with a lively and discerning foreword by Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen, celebrates the book's 40th anniversary"--
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Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780226794440
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Lears, T. J. Jackson, 1947 - No place of grace Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2021 ISBN 9780226794440
Sprache:
Englisch
Mehr zum Autor:
Lears, T. J. Jackson 1947-
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