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Routledge
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Routledge
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Routledge
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To celebrate The American Scholar's thirtieth anniversary, Hiram Haydn and Betsy Saunders brought together fifty representative selections published throughout those years. These selections include the best essays that appeared throughout the life of one of the leading publications of the country. The editors give a picture of the changing intellectual climate and emphasis from the early 1930s to... Read more
Introduction to the Transaction Edition, Foreword, A Note on the History of The American Scholar, In Praise of Diversity, Economists and the World Crisis, Teaching and the Spirit of Research, The Humanity o f Mathematics, The Germans: Unhappy Philosophers in Politics, Private Property or Capitalism, Catholics and Other People, On the Importance of Being Unprincipled, The Century of the Child, The Challenge of Our Times, Impression of Ireland, Music for the Man Who Enjoys Hamlet, The Problem of the Liberal Arts College, Vertical and Horizontal Thinking, Neilson of Smith, Ritual and Reality, The Devil Is Dead, and What a Loss!, The New Criticism and the Democratic Tradition, The Best of Two Worlds, Expressionism and Cubism, Snobs, Slobs and the English Language, The Retort Circumstantial, Freud, Religion and Science, Liberal Education and a Liberal Nation, Life and the World It Lives In, Christian Gauss, Christian Gauss as a Teacher of Literature, Cezanne Today, Thomas Wolfe in Berlin, The Turn of the Tide, Three American Philosophers, America and Art, Alaskan Summer, A Glimpse of Incomprehensibles, Irwin Edman, The Pseudo-Conservative Revolt, Psychoanalysis and Morality, Jehovah’s Witnesses as a Proletarian Movement, The Possibilities of Heroism, The Present Human Condition, This Literary Generation, The Flowering of Latter-Day Man, The Judgment of the Birds, Our Documentary Culture, The Meaning of Bandung, Joseph and His Brothers, Machiavelli’s Prince, Equality: America’s Deferred Commitment, Thornton Wilder The Limits of Analysis, Reflections on Mass Culture, John Dewey’s Legacy
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Dwight Waldo
