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Art, politics, and will : essays in honor of Lionel Trilling
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ISBN: 0465004482 Year: 1977 Publisher: New York Basic Books

Eastern & western history, thought & culture, 1600-1815
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ISBN: 0819188247 Year: 1993 Publisher: Lanham New York London University Press of America

Historicism, psychoanalysis, and early modern culture
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ISBN: 0415920531 0415920523 Year: 2000 Volume: *3 Publisher: New York London Routledge

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The great revolutions and the civilizations of modernity
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ISBN: 9004148124 9047417658 Year: 2006 Volume: 99 Publisher: Leiden Boston Brill

Intellectuals
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ISBN: 0060160500 Year: 1990 Publisher: New York London Tokyo Perennial Library

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This volume presents a portrait of the minds that have shaped the modern world. In a series of case studies, Rousseau, Shelley, Marx, Ibsen, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Bertrand Russell, Brecht, Sarte, Edmund Wilson, Victor Gollancz, Lillan Hellman, Cyril Connolly, Norman Mailer, James Baldwin, Kenneth Tyan, Noam Chomsky, and others are revealed as intellectuals both brilliant and contradictory, magnetic and dangerous. The author examines the rise of the intellectual as a sort of secular seer and moral arbiter, a role once filled by the priest or soothsayer. These intellectuals, in the author's opinion, promote themselves as possessing the moral authority to transform society, a claim that the author disputes.


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Global perspectives on the United States
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ISBN: 0252099338 9780252099335 9780252040832 025204083X 9780252082337 0252082338 Year: 2017 Publisher: Urbana

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"This edited collection emphasizes public discourse and the related circulation of debates, practices, and commodities that get perceived abroad as having an American origin, such as hip-hop in Japan or the organization of higher education in Germany. These essays provide a unique, global perspective on America, because they are authored by Americanist scholars situated outside of the United States, and working in Britain, Japan, Germany, Kazakhstan, Egypt, South Africa, Panama, Mexico, the Republic of Georgia, Hungary, Norway, and Poland. Encompassing a range of disciplines, including literary studies, art history, political science, and sociology, the collection aims to provide a series of in-depth case studies that focus on specific cultural practices, as well as the importation and exportation of institutional organizational systems. Rather than simply accepting as its starting point the idea of 'Pro-Americanism' and 'Anti-Americanism,' this project analyzes the production of those concepts when attached to specific social practices, and uncovers the impact that such labeling has on social change within the specific cultural and political contexts of disparate locations. The collection emerges out of research done by the International Forum for U.S. Studies scholars, and includes essays that cover a range of topics, such as the Arab uprising in Egypt, 9/11, U.S.-Latin American relations, and global responses to the Civil Rights Movement"--

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