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- catalog abstract "In the last two decades of the nineteenth century Americans were faced with the challenges--and the uncertainties--of a new era. The comfortable Victorian values of continuity, progress, and order clashed with the unsettling modern notions of constant change, relative truth, and chaos. Attempting to embrace the intellectual challenges of modernism, American thinkers of the day were yet reluctant to welcome the wholesale rejection of the past and destruction of traditional values. In Reluctant Modernism: American Thought and Culture, 1880-1900, George Cotkin surveys the intellectual life of this crucial transitional period. His story begins with the Darwinian controversies, since the mainstream of American culture was just beginning to come to grips with the implications of the Origin of Species, published in 1859. Cotkin demonstrates the effects of this shift in thinking on philosophy, anthropology, and the newly developing field of psychology. Drawing upon his extensive knowledge of these fields, he explicates, in terms easily accessible to the general reader the essential tenets of such major thinkers and writers as William James, Franz Boas, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Henry Adams, and Kate Chopin. Cotkin devotes careful consideration to the underlying assumptions of racism that culminated in the s̀eparate but equal' doctrine, the struggles of women to combat the pseudoscientific arguments relegating them to the domestic sphere, and the attempts of self-appointed custodians of culture to create a morally improving public culture that would counteract the decadent influence of consumerism.".
- catalog contributor b3572353.
- catalog coverage "United States Civilization 1865-1918.".
- catalog coverage "United States Intellectual life 1865-1918.".
- catalog created "c1992.".
- catalog date "1992".
- catalog date "c1992.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1992.".
- catalog description "In the last two decades of the nineteenth century Americans were faced with the challenges--and the uncertainties--of a new era. The comfortable Victorian values of continuity, progress, and order clashed with the unsettling modern notions of constant change, relative truth, and chaos. Attempting to embrace the intellectual challenges of modernism, American thinkers of the day were yet reluctant to welcome the wholesale rejection of the past and destruction of traditional values. In Reluctant Modernism: American Thought and Culture, 1880-1900, George Cotkin surveys the intellectual life of this crucial transitional period. His story begins with the Darwinian controversies, since the mainstream of American culture was just beginning to come to grips with the implications of the Origin of Species, published in 1859. Cotkin demonstrates the effects of this shift in thinking on philosophy, anthropology, and the newly developing field of psychology. Drawing upon his extensive knowledge of these fields, he explicates, in terms easily accessible to the general reader the essential tenets of such major thinkers and writers as William James, Franz Boas, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Henry Adams, and Kate Chopin. Cotkin devotes careful consideration to the underlying assumptions of racism that culminated in the s̀eparate but equal' doctrine, the struggles of women to combat the pseudoscientific arguments relegating them to the domestic sphere, and the attempts of self-appointed custodians of culture to create a morally improving public culture that would counteract the decadent influence of consumerism.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p.157-180) and index.".
- catalog description "The "tangled bank" of evolution and religion -- The experiences of American philosophy -- Anthropology, progress, and racism -- Woman as intellectual and artist -- Consuming culture -- The American fin de siècle.".
- catalog extent "xvi, 188 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Reluctant modernism.".
- catalog identifier "0805790543 (alk. paper) :".
- catalog identifier "0805790594 (pbk. : alk. paper) :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Reluctant modernism.".
- catalog isPartOf "Twayne's American thought and culture series".
- catalog issued "1992".
- catalog issued "c1992.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Boston : Twayne Publishers,".
- catalog relation "Reluctant modernism.".
- catalog spatial "United States Civilization 1865-1918.".
- catalog spatial "United States Intellectual life 1865-1918.".
- catalog subject "973.8 20".
- catalog subject "E169.1 .C785 1992".
- catalog tableOfContents "The "tangled bank" of evolution and religion -- The experiences of American philosophy -- Anthropology, progress, and racism -- Woman as intellectual and artist -- Consuming culture -- The American fin de siècle.".
- catalog title "Reluctant modernism : American thought and culture, 1880-1900 / George Cotkin.".
- catalog type "text".