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Author | : Alan Macfarlane |
Publisher | : Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
The Origins of English Individualism is about the nature of English society during the five centuries leading up to the Industrial Revolution, and the crucial differences between England and other European nations. Drawing upon detailed studies of English parishes and a growing number of other intensive local studies, as well as diaries, legal treatises and contemporary foreign sources, the author examines the framework of change in England. He suggests that there has been a basic misrepresentation of English history and that this has considerable implications both for our understanding of modern British and American society, and for current theories concerning the preconditions of industrialization.
Author | : Michael McKeon |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 564 |
Release | : 2002-05-22 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780801869594 |
The novel emerged, McKeon contends, as a cultural instrument designed to engage the epistemological and social crises of the age.
Author | : Alan Macfarlane |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1979-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521225878 |
Author | : Michael Mascuch |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2013-06-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0745667732 |
This book traces the emergence of the concept of self-identity in modern Western culture, as it was both reflected in and advanced by the development of autobiographical practice in early modern England. It offers a fresh and illuminating appraisal of the nature of autobiographical narrative in general and of the early modern forms of biography, diary and autobiography in particular. The result is a significant and original contribution to the history of individualism. Michael Mascuch argues that the definitive characteristic of individualist self-identity is the personal capacity to produce a unified retrospective autobiographical narrative, and he stresses that this capacity was first demonstrated in England during the last decade of the eighteenth century. He examines the long-term process of innovation in written discourse leading up to this event, from the first use of blank almanacs and common place books by the pious in the late sixteenth century, through the popular criminal biographies of the late seventeenth century, to the printed-for-the-author scandalous memoirs of the mid-eighteenth century. While offering a detailed account of a significant period in the rise of a modern literary genre, Origins of the Individualist Self also addresses topics which are central in the fields of literary and cultural theory and social and cultural history.
Author | : Aaron Gurevich |
Publisher | : Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1995-11-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780631179634 |
The development of modern Europe, through such events as the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, and the rise of industrial capitalism, is often seen in terms of the triumph of individualism. Yet the precise stages in the evolution of the European individual remain one of the most elusive aspects of the region's history. In this broad and thought-provoking investigation, Aaron Gurevich, one of Russia's leading historians, examines the growth of individual consciousness through European history, and assesses its impact on key social and political events.
Author | : Samuel L. Popkin |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 1979-06-11 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780520039544 |
[This provacative reinterpretation of Vietnamese history in particular and peasant society in general will be of wide interest to political scientists, historians, anthropologists, sociologists, development planners, and Asian scholars].
Author | : Alan Macfarlane |
Publisher | : Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780631165576 |
The Culture of Capitalism explores original perspectives on capitalist society. Argues that capitalism is more than an economic system, but is a culture that affects social, material, and even spiritual bases of existence Draws on research generated by detailed historical community studies as well as literature on non-western societies Explores the nature of evil, attitudes toward love and family, population change, violence, and more Questions the origin and cause of capitalist ideology
Author | : Barry Alan Shain |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 1996-08-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780691029122 |
Sharpening the debate over the values that formed America's founding political philosophy, Barry Alan Shain challenges us to reconsider what early Americans meant when they used such basic political concepts as the public good, liberty, and slavery. We have too readily assumed, he argues, that eighteenth-century Americans understood these and other terms in an individualistic manner. However, by exploring how these core elements of their political thought were employed in Revolutionary-era sermons, public documents, newspaper editorials, and political pamphlets, Shain reveals a very different understanding--one based on a reformed Protestant communalism. In this context, individual liberty was the freedom to order one's life in accord with the demanding ethical standards found in Scripture and confirmed by reason. This was in keeping with Americans' widespread acceptance of original sin and the related assumption that a well-lived life was only possible in a tightly knit, intrusive community made up of families, congregations, and local government bodies. Shain concludes that Revolutionary-era Americans defended a Protestant communal vision of human flourishing that stands in stark opposition to contemporary liberal individualism. This overlooked component of the American political inheritance, he further suggests, demands examination because it alters the historical ground upon which contemporary political alternatives often seek legitimation, and it facilitates our understanding of much of American history and of the foundational language still used in authoritative political documents.
Author | : Nadia Urbinati |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2015-01-28 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0300189958 |
In a well-reasoned and thought-provoking polemic, respected political theorist Nadia Urbinati explores a profound shift in the ideology of individualism, from the ethical nineteenth-century standard, in which each person cooperates with others as equals for the betterment of their lives and the community, to the contemporary “I don’t give a damn” maxim. Identifying this “tyranny of the moderns” as the most radical risk that modern democracy currently faces, the author examines the critical necessity of reestablishing the role of the individual citizen as a free and equal agent of democratic society.
Author | : Aaron Barlow |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2013-08-27 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
American individualism: It is the reason for American success, but it also tears the nation apart. Why do Americans have so much trouble seeing eye to eye today? Is this new? Was there ever an American consensus? The Cult of Individualism: A History of an Enduring American Myth explores the rarely discussed cultural differences leading to today's seemingly intractable political divides. After an examination of the various meanings of individualism in America, author Aaron Barlow describes the progression and evolution of the concept from the 18th century on, illuminating the wide division in Caucasian American culture that developed between the culture based on the ideals of the English Enlightenment and that of the Scots-Irish "Borderers." The "Borderer" legacy, generally explored only by students of Appalachian culture, remains as pervasive and significant in contemporary American culture and politics as it is, unfortunately, overlooked. It is from the "Borderers" that the Tea Party sprang, along with many of the attitudes of the contemporary American right, making it imperative that this culture be thoroughly explored.