The Genteel Tradition and the Sacred Rage: High Culture vs. Democracy in Adams, James, and Santayana

(Part of the Cultural Studies of the United States Series and Cultural Studies of the United States Series)

by Robert Dawidoff

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Asking why many American intellectuals have had such difficulty accepting wholeheartedly the cultural dimensions of democracy, Robert Dawidoff examines their alienation and ambivalence, a tradition of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0807820172

ISBN13:9780807820179

Release Date:January 1992

Publisher:University of North Carolina Press

Length:248 Pages

Weight:1.15 lbs.

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The Genteel Tradition and the Sacred Rage: High Culture vs. Democracy in Adams, James, and Santayana

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