American Intellectual History: A Very Short Introduction Format: Paperback

Ratner-Rosenhagen, Jennifer

ISBN 10: 0190622431 / ISBN 13: 9780190622435

Published by Oxford University Press, 2021

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• Title: American Intellectual History: A Very Short Introduction Format: Paperback
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0190622431
• ISBN 13: 9780190622435
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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. In engaging and accessible prose, Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen's 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.

About the Author

Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen is the Merle Curti and Vilas-Borghesi Distinguished Achievement Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she teaches US intellectual and cultural history. She is the author of American Nietzsche, which won the American Historical Association's John H. Dunning Prize, the Society for U.S. Intellectual History Book Award, and the Morris D. Forkosch Prize for the Best First Book in Intellectual History.