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The American Adam (Phoenix Books)
R. W. B. Lewis
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Description for The American Adam (Phoenix Books)
Paperback. Series: Phoenix Books. Num Pages: 207 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KBC; 2ABM; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 135 x 12. Weight in Grams: 225.
Intellectual history is viewed in this book as a series of "great conversations"—dramatic dialogues in which a culture's spokesmen wrestle with the leading questions of their times. In nineteenth-century America the great argument centered about De Crèvecoeur's "new man," the American, an innocent Adam in a bright new world dissociating himself from the historic past. Mr. Lewis reveals this vital preoccupation as a pervasive, transforming ingredient of the American mind, illuminating history and theology as well as art, shaping the consciousness of lesser thinkers as fully as it shaped the giants of the age. He traces the Adamic theme in ... Read more
Intellectual history is viewed in this book as a series of "great conversations"—dramatic dialogues in which a culture's spokesmen wrestle with the leading questions of their times. In nineteenth-century America the great argument centered about De Crèvecoeur's "new man," the American, an innocent Adam in a bright new world dissociating himself from the historic past. Mr. Lewis reveals this vital preoccupation as a pervasive, transforming ingredient of the American mind, illuminating history and theology as well as art, shaping the consciousness of lesser thinkers as fully as it shaped the giants of the age. He traces the Adamic theme in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1959
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
Series
Phoenix Books
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226476810
SKU
V9780226476810
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