Death of a Nation: American Culture and the End of ExceptionalismU of Minnesota Press, 2002 - 352 หน้า In the 1940s, American thought experienced a cataclysmic paradigm shift. Before then, national ideology was shaped by American exceptionalism and bourgeois nationalism: elites saw themselves as the children of a homogeneous nation standing outside the history and culture of the Old World. This view repressed the cultures of those who did not fit the elite vision: people of color, Catholics, Jews, and immigrants. David W. Noble, a preeminent figure in American studies, inherited this ideology. However, like many who entered the field in the 1940s, he rejected the ideals of his intellectual predecessors and sought a new, multicultural, postnational scholarship. Throughout his career, Noble has examined this rupture in American intellectual life. In Death of a Nation, he presents the culmination of decades of thought in a sweeping treatise on the shaping of contemporary American studies and an eloquent summation of his distinguished career. Exploring the roots of American exceptionalism, Noble demonstrates that it was a doomed ideology. Capitalists who believed in a bounded nationalism also depended on a boundless, international marketplace. This contradiction was inherently unstable, and the belief in a unified national landscape exploded in World War II. The rupture provided an opening for alternative narratives as class, ethnicity, race, and region were reclaimed as part of the nation's history. Noble traces the effects of this shift among scholars and artists, and shows how even today they struggle to imagine an alternative post-national narrative and seek the meaning of local and national cultures in an increasingly transnational world. While Noble illustrates the challenges thatthe paradigm shift created, he also suggests solutions that will help scholars avoid romanticized and reductive approaches toward the study of American culture in the future. |
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... capitalism . For Becker , capitalism was irrational . He had looked , at first , at medieval Europe as the major source of irrationality , but now , in 1919 , he had to take a new , modern force , capitalism , into account as the major ...
... capitalism . Counterprogressive his- torians embraced capitalism when they embraced internationalism , and they ... capitalist culture contradicted the paradigm of American exceptionalism . I hoped to accomplish this with my 1985 ...
... capitalist who imagined economic plenitude in an ever ex- panding and boundless marketplace . It was necessary to ... capitalists . They always chose to use their private prop- erty within the national interest . They were loyal to the ...
... capitalism . There was , for him , a sharp distinction between a system of virtuous pri- vate property associated with the democratic people and the corrupt private property of capitalists . Capitalist private property expressed self ...
... capitalist elites who threatened to replace the class- less democracy of 1828 with class hierarchy and class conflict . The chaos of the international world had penetrated the boundaries of the nation . Perhaps because this capitalist ...
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The Birth and Death of American History | 11 |
Historians Leaving Home Killing Fathers | 48 |
The Crisis of American Literary Criticism from World War I to World War II | 89 |
Elegies for the National Landscape | 116 |
The New Literary Criticism The Death of the Nation Born in New England | 139 |
The Vanishing National Landscape Painting Architecture Music and Philosophy in the Early Twentieth Century | 161 |
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Death of a Nation: American Culture and the End of Exceptionalism David W. Noble ชมบางส่วนของหนังสือ - 2002 |