At the Center - American Thought and Culture in the Mid-Twentieth Century

At the Center explores the mode of perception and reflection which grasped at consensus and sought to determine "centers" or orienting norms, and prevailed across many registers of thought, imagination, and practice in the 1950s, as well as the varieties of argument and expression that escaped inclusion within coherent wholes.

About the author

Casey Blake is professor of history and American studies at Columbia University. Daniel H. Borus is professor of history at the University of Rochester. Howard Brick is Louis Evans Professor of History at the University of Michigan.

Summary

At the Center explores the mode of perception and reflection which grasped at consensus and sought to determine “centers” or orienting norms, and prevailed across many registers of thought, imagination, and practice in the 1950s, as well as the varieties of argument and expression that escaped inclusion within coherent wholes.

Additional text

This revisionist account of the long 1950s in American intellectual life is both exciting and timely. Showing how across different domains artists and thinkers sought coherence after depression and war without renouncing their insights into flux and historicity, Borus, Blake and Brick make clear that the boundary to the experimentation and upheaval of the 1960s was much more porous than usually thought. Without apologizing for its limitations, they have saved a pregnant era from the condescension of posterity.

Product details

• Authors: Casey Nelson Blake, Casey Nelson Borus Blake, Blake Casey Nelson, Daniel H. Borus, Borus Daniel H., Howard Brick, Howard/ Blake Brick, Howard Brick
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2020
• EAN: 9781442226753
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-2675-3
• No. of pages: 358
• Series: American Thought and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, 20. Jahrhundert (1900 bis 1999 n. Chr.), Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas