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At the Center - American Thought and Culture in the Mid-Twentieth Century (Paperback)
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At the Center - American Thought and Culture in the Mid-Twentieth Century (Paperback)
Series: American Thought and Culture
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At a time when American political and cultural leaders asserted
that the nation stood at "the center of world awareness," thinkers
and artists sought to understand and secure principles that lay at
the center of things. From the onset of the Cold War in 1948
through 1963, they asked: What defined the essential character of
"American culture"? Could permanent moral standards guide human
conduct amid the flux and horrors of history? In what ways did a
stable self emerge through the life cycle? Could scientific method
rescue truth from error, illusion, and myth? Are there key elements
to democracy, to the integrity of a society, to order in the world?
Answers to such questions promised intellectual and moral stability
in an age haunted by the memory of world war and the possibility of
future devastation on an even greater scale. Yet other key figures
rejected the search for a center, asserting that freedom lay in the
dispersion of cultural energies and the plurality of American
experiences. In probing the centering impulse of the era, At the
Center offers a unique perspective on the United States at the
pinnacle of its power.
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