Reconstructing America : the symbol of America in modern thought /
With wit and passion, Ceaser traces the origins of the negative images of America, beginning with French scientists in the middle of the eighteenth century who viewed the country as a land of racial and physical degeneracy, and continuing with German thinkers from Hegel to Nietzsche, Spengler, and H...
| Основен автор: | Ceaser, James W. |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
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New Haven, CT :
Yale University Press,
c1997.
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Съдържание:
- America as degeneracy
- American responses to the degeneracy thesis
- America in the mirror of France: The two revolutions
- America as a racial symbol: The "New History" of Arthur de Gobineau
- From Ethnology to Multiculturalism
- Racialism Verus Political Science: The Tocqueville-Gobineau Exchange
- From America to Americanization: Images of America in German thought
- Katastrophenhaft: Martin Heidegger's America
- America as the end of history
- America as Postmodern.