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Twentieth-Century Multiplicity - American Thought and Culture, 1900-1920 (Paperback)
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Twentieth-Century Multiplicity - American Thought and Culture, 1900-1920 (Paperback)
Series: American Thought and Culture
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Twentieth-Century Multiplicity explores the effect of the
culture-wide sense that prevailing syntheses failed to account
fully for the complexities of modern life. As Daniel H. Borus
documents the belief that there were many truths, many beauties,
and many values-a condition that the historian Henry Adams labeled
multiplicity-rather than singular ones prompted new departures in a
myriad of discourses and practices ranging from comic strips to
politics to sociology. The new emphasis on contingency and context
prompted Americans to rethink what counted as truth and beauty, how
the self was constituted and societies cohered and functioned. The
challenge to absolutes and universals, Borus shows, gave rise to a
culture in which standards were not always firm and fixed and
previously accepted hierarchies were not always valid. Although
itself strenuously challenged, especially during the First World
War, early twentieth-century multiplicity bequeathed to American
cultural life an abiding sense of the complexity and diversity of
things.
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