Long before the United States was a nation, it was a set of ideas,
projected onto the New World by European explorers with centuries
of belief and thought in tow. From this foundation of expectation
and experience, America and American thought grew in turn, enriched
by the bounties of the Enlightenment, the philosophies of liberty
and individuality, the tenets of religion, and the doctrines of
republicanism and democracy. Crucial to this development were the
thinkers who nurtured it, from Thomas Jefferson to Ralph Waldo
Emerson, W.E.B. Du Bois to Jane Addams, and Betty Friedan to
Richard Rorty. This addition to Oxford's Very Short Introductions
series traces how Americans have addressed the issues and events of
their time and place, whether it is the Civil War, the Great
Depression, or the culture wars of today. Spanning a variety of
disciplines, from religion, philosophy, and political thought, to
cultural criticism, social theory, and the arts, Jennifer
Ratner-Rosenhagen shows how ideas have been major forces in
American history, driving movements such as transcendentalism,
Social Darwinism, conservatism, and postmodernism. In engaging and
accessible prose, this introduction to American thought considers
how notions about freedom and belonging, the market and morality -
and even truth - have commanded generations of Americans and been
the cause of fierce debate.
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