A World Made Safe for Differences: Cold War Intellectuals and the Politics of Identity (American Intellectual Culture)
Christopher Shannon
ISBN 10: 084769058X ISBN 13: 9780847690589
Published by Rowman & Littlefield, 2005
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In A World Made Safe for Differences, Christopher Shannon examines how an anthropological definition of culture shaped the central political and social narratives of the Cold War era. In the middle decades of the twentieth century, American intellectuals understood culture as a "whole way of life" and a "pattern of values" in order to account for and accommodate differences between America and other countries, and within America itself. Shannon locates the ideological origins of current debates about multiculturalism in the pluralist thought of "consensus" liberalism. The emphasis on individualism in contemporary identity politics, Shannon suggests, must be understood as a legacy of the Cold War liberalism of the 1950s rather than the counter-culture radicalism of the 1960s. A World Made Safe for Differences is a highly original and controversial book that will be of great interest to students and scholars of twentieth century American history.
About the Author: Christopher Shannon is assistant professor of history at Christendom College in Front Royal, Virginia. He is the author of Conspicuous Criticism: Tradition, the Individual, and Culture in American Social Thought, from Veblen to Mills.
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Title: A World Made Safe for Differences: Cold War ...
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Publication Date: 2005
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New