| Description |
1 online resource (x, 315 pages). |
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| Series |
American thought and culture
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American thought and culture.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-294) and index. |
| Contents |
Twentieth-century multiplicity -- Foundations -- Beauties -- Selves -- Collectivities -- War. |
| Summary |
"Twentieth-Century Multiplicity explores the effect of the culture-wide sense that prevailing syntheses failed to account fully for the complexities of modern life. As Daniel H. Borus documents the belief that there were many truths, many beauties, and many values--a condition that the historian Henry Adams labeled multiplicity--rather than singular ones prompted new departures in a myriad of discourses and practices ranging from comic strips to politics to sociology. The new emphasis on contingency and context prompted Americans to rethink what counted as truth and beauty, how the self was constituted and societies cohered and functioned. The challenge to absolutes and universals, Borus shows, gave rise to a culture in which standards were not always firm and fixed and previously accepted hierarchies were not always valid. Although itself strenuously challenged, especially during the First World War, early twentieth-century multiplicity bequeathed to American cultural life an abiding sense of the complexity and diversity of things"--Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Philosophy, American -- 20th century.
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Philosophy, American. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Pluralism.
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United States -- Civilization -- 20th century.
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United States. |
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Civilization. |
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Pluralism. |
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Twentieth-century multiplicity Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2009. 0742515060 (cloth : alk. paper) (DLC) 2008027290 |
| ISBN |
9780742564589 ebook |
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0742515060 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780742515062 cloth alkaline paper |
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0742564584 electronic |
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9780742564589 electronic |
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0742564584 ebook |
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9780742515079 (paperback) |
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0742515079 (paperback) |
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1282496484 |
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9781282496484 |
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9786612496486 |
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6612496487 |
| Standard No. |
9786612496486 |
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