000798849 000__ 02018cam\a2200373\i\4500 000798849 001__ 798849 000798849 005__ 20210515134702.0 000798849 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 000798849 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 000798849 008__ 170802s2017\\\\nyu\\\\\ob\\\\001\0\eng\d 000798849 020__ $$a9780190682187$$q(electronic book) 000798849 035__ $$a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001741784 000798849 040__ $$aStDuBDS$$beng$$cStDuBDS$$erda$$epn 000798849 050_0 $$aPS225$$b.C48 2017 000798849 08204 $$a810.90054$$223 000798849 1001_ $$aChodat, Robert,$$d1970-$$eauthor. 000798849 24514 $$aThe matter of high words :$$bnaturalism, normativity, and the postwar sage /$$cRobert Chodat. 000798849 264_1 $$aNew York, NY :$$bOxford University Press,$$c2017. 000798849 300__ $$a1 online resource 000798849 336__ $$atext$$2rdacontent 000798849 337__ $$acomputer$$2rdamedia 000798849 338__ $$aonline resource$$2rdacarrier 000798849 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 000798849 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 000798849 5208_ $$aAmbitious scientific accounts of human thought and behaviour have been a mainstay of American intellectual culture since World War II. But if such theories are true, what is the status of our highest words, the vocabularies that orient and inspire our actions? What forms are available today for exploring and embodying such terms as 'good,' 'courage,' or 'justice'? This work considers the rise of the 'postwar sage,' a strand of post-1945 American writing that takes up these questions in distinctive and illuminating ways. 000798849 588__ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 21, 2017). 000798849 650_0 $$aAmerican literature$$y20th century$$xHistory and criticism. 000798849 650_0 $$aLiterature and society$$zUnited States$$xHistory$$y20th century. 000798849 650_0 $$aPhilosophy, Modern, in literature. 000798849 650_0 $$aLanguage and languages in literature. 000798849 77608 $$iPrint version:$$z9780190682156 000798849 85280 $$bebk$$hOxford Scholarship Online 000798849 85640 $$3Oxford scholarship online$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190682156.001.0001$$zOnline Access 000798849 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:798849$$pGLOBAL_SET 000798849 980__ $$aEBOOK 000798849 980__ $$aBIB 000798849 982__ $$aEbook 000798849 983__ $$aOnline