Twentieth-century multiplicity [electronic resource] : American thought and culture, 1900-1920 / Daniel H. Borus.
Borus, Daniel H.
2009
B936 .B67 2009eb
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Title Twentieth-century multiplicity [electronic resource] : American thought and culture, 1900-1920 / Daniel H. Borus.
Author Borus, Daniel H.
ISBN 9780742564589 (electronic book)
0742564584 (electronic book)
0742515060
9780742515062
Publication Details Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2009.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (x, 315 p. : ill.
Call Number B936 .B67 2009eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 191
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-294) and index.
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Series American thought and culture.
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