@article{470739,
      recid = {470739},
      author = {Borus, Daniel H.},
      title = {Twentieth-century multiplicity American thought and  culture, 1900-1920 / [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {Rowman & Littlefield,},
      address = {Lanham, Md. :},
      pages = {1 online resource (x, 315 p. :},
      year = {2009},
      abstract = {"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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/470739},
}