Civilization in the United States, an Inquiry by Thirty Americans - Couverture rigide

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ISBN 10 : 0837144833 ISBN 13 : 9780837144832

Editeur : Praeger Publishers Inc, 1971

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This book has bec Dan adventure in intellectual co-operation. If it were a mere collection of haphazard essays, gathered together to make the conventional symposium, it would have only slight significance. But it has been ohe deliberate and (ffganized outgrowth of the common efforts of like-minded men and women to see the problem of modem American civilization as a whole,a Ddto illuminate by careful criticism the special aspect ofthat civilization with which the individual is most familiar. Personal contact has served to correct overanphasis, and slow and careful selection of the members of a groiq which has now grown to some thirty-odd has given to this work a unity of approach and attack which it otherwise could not possibly have had. The nucleus of this group was brought together by ccnnn Mnwork, common interests, and more or less common assumptirais. As I cmg ago as the autumn of last year Mr, Van Wyck Brooks and I discussed the possibility of several of us, who were mgaged in much the same kind of critical examination of our civilization, coming together to exchange ideas, to darify our individual fields, and to discover wherein they coincided, overlap ed, or diverged. The original desire was the modest one of making it possible for us to avoid working at cross-purposes. I suggested that we meet at my home, which a few of us did, and since that time until the delivery of this volume to the publishers we have met every fortnight.- Even at our first meeting we discovered our points of view to have so much in common that our desire for infonnal and pleasant discussions became the more serious wish to contribute a definite and tangible piece of work towards the advance of intellectual life in A merica.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Praeger Publishers Inc
• Date d'édition: 1971
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0837144833
• ISBN 13: 9780837144832
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 577
• Éditeur: Stearns Harold Edmund
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible