Henry Adams and the Need to Know

William Merrill Decker

ISBN 10: 0934909873 / ISBN 13: 9780934909877

Published by University Of Virginia Press Sep 2005, 2005

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Neuware - The University of Virginia Press is proud to add the Massachusetts Historical Society to our list of distribution partners. Beginning immediately, we will be the exclusive distributor of the following new titles and backlist from the society's fine selection of books. For Henry Adams at the turn of the twentieth century, as for his successors in the twenty-first, the relation of mind to a world remade by technology and geopolitical conflict largely determined the destiny of civil life.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Henry Adams and the Need to Know
• Publisher: University Of Virginia Press Sep 2005
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0934909873
• ISBN 13: 9780934909877
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 243W x 162H x 36D millimeters 243 millimeters width by 162 millimeters height by 36 millimeters depth

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Synopsis

For Henry Adams at the turn of the twentieth century, as for his successors in the twenty-first, the relation of mind to a world remade by technology and geopolitical conflict largely determined the destiny of civil life. Henry Adams and the Need to Know presents fourteen essays that articulate Adams' ongoing preoccupation with knowledge, stressing his eclecticism and his need to clarify the role of critical intelligence in public life. Adams' work appeals to a wide spectrum of historical and literary inquiry and claims a place in multiple scholarly contexts. The topics covered in this volume range from international politics (of Adams' age and ours) to portraiture, from orientalism and travel literature to the disintegration of the human mind. Here, leading scholars explore often-overlooked details of Adams' relationships with people and ideas. They reopen settled topics and reframe truisms. Each essay affirms, in one way or another, that to study Adams is to discover his continuing and astonishing relevance.

About the Author

Author of The Literary Vocation of Henry Adams, William Merrill Decker is Professor of English at Oklahoma State University. Earl N. Harbert, author of The Force So Much Closer Home: Henry Adams and the Adams Family, is Professor Emeritus at Northeastern University.