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The Americans (Paperback)
Hugo Munsterberg; Translated by Edwin Bissell Holt
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1905. The only aim of the book is to study the American man and his
inner tendencies; and, perhaps a truer name for my book would have
been The Philosophy of Americanism. For such a task the outsider
may be, after all, not quite unsuited, since the characteristic
forces make themselves more easily felt by him than by those who
have breathed the atmosphere from their childhood. I am, therefore,
anxious to insist that the accent of the book likes on the four
chapters, Spirit of Self-Direction, Spirit of Self-Realization,
Spirit of Self-Perfection, and Spirit of Self-Assertion; while
those chapters on the economic and political problems are the least
important of the book, as they are meant merely by way of
illustration. The lasting forces and tendencies of American life
are my topics, and not the problems of the day. For this reason the
book is translated as it appeared six months ago in Germany, and
the events and statistical figures of the last few months have not
been added; the Philosophy of Americanism is independent of the
happenings of yesterday.
1914. The present volume does not aim to be a system. It does
profess not to forget the initial quest of philosophy, and toward
this goal it seeks to indicate some little way of advance. Its
scope is limited, for it proposed only to give a consistent
account, a definition, of one very common yet perplexing feature of
the universe - consciousness. This has been defined many times
before, and much discussed, yet so often without consistency and so
strikingly without agreement that the last word, very obviously,
has by no means been said.
1914. The present volume does not aim to be a system. It does
profess not to forget the initial quest of philosophy, and toward
this goal it seeks to indicate some little way of advance. Its
scope is limited, for it proposed only to give a consistent
account, a definition, of one very common yet perplexing feature of
the universe - consciousness. This has been defined many times
before, and much discussed, yet so often without consistency and so
strikingly without agreement that the last word, very obviously,
has by no means been said.
Also Authored By Ralph Barton Perry, Walter B. Pitkin, And Edward
Gleason Spaulding.
Also Authored By Ralph Barton Perry, Walter B. Pitkin, And Edward
Gleason Spaulding.
Also Authored By Ralph Barton Perry, Walter B. Pitkin, And Edward
Gleason Spaulding.
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