Reconstructing America : the symbol of America in modern thought /

With wit and passion, Ceaser traces the origins of the negative images of America, beginning with French scientists in the middle of the eighteenth century who viewed the country as a land of racial and physical degeneracy, and continuing with German thinkers from Hegel to Nietzsche, Spengler, and H...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ceaser, James W. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, ©1997.
©1997
Temas:
National characteristics, American.
Americanization.
Américains.
Américanisation.
HISTORY > United States > General.
Americanization
Intellectual life
National characteristics, American
Public opinion, European
Kultur
Amerikanisierung
Nationalcharakter
Amerikabild
Amerikanisatie.
Nationale kenmerken.
Publieke opinie.
Cultuurkritiek.
United States > Foreign public opinion, European.
France > Intellectual life.
Germany > Intellectual life.
France > Vie intellectuelle.
Allemagne > Vie intellectuelle.
États-Unis > Opinion publique européenne.
France
Germany
United States
Frankreich
Deutschland
Europa
USA
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • America as degeneracy
  • American responses to the degeneracy thesis
  • America in the mirror of France: The two revolutions
  • America as a racial symbol: The "New History" of Arthur de Gobineau
  • From Ethnology to Multiculturalism
  • Racialism Verus Political Science: The Tocqueville-Gobineau Exchange
  • From America to Americanization: Images of America in German thought
  • Katastrophenhaft: Martin Heidegger's America
  • America as the end of history
  • America as Postmodern.

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