The American Scholar Reader

by Dwight Waldo

Overview

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 the late 1950s. The collection illustrates the unusually wide range and diversity of the regular subject matter of The American Scholar. This work is once again brought to public attention a half century later, and this edition includes a new introduction by Irving Louis Horowitz.Haydn and Saunders chose essays that were of supreme quality; those included were among the best of several hundred published. They focused on a diversity of subject matter as well as a selection representative of the different interests stressed in the magazine's history. These pieces reflect the prevailing intellectual and cultural currents of fifty years earlier. The American Scholar Reader then, as now, focuses on themes of economics, religion, psychology, social and cultural matters, ecology, and the importance of conservation.Some of the major contributors and essays herein included are: 'The Germans: Unhappy Philosophers in Politics,' Reinhold Niebuhr; 'The Challenge of Our Times,' Harold J. Laski; 'The Problem of the Liberal Arts College,' John Dewey; 'The Retort Circumstantial,' Jacques Barzun; 'Freud, Religion, and Science,' David Riesman; 'Three American Philosophers,' George Santayana; 'Christian Gauss as a Teacher of Literature,' Edmund Wilson; 'The Pseudo-Conservative Revolt,' Richard Hofstadter; 'The Present Human Condition,' Erich Fromm; 'Our Documentary Culture,' Margaret Mead; and 'Equality America's Deferred Commitment,' C. Vann Woodward.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781351486002
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/04/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	543
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Dwight Waldo

Table of Contents

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