Millennial Perspectives: Lifeworlds and Utopias

By Hans-Ulrich Mohr

Ever since the end of the 19th century the US has played a leading role in the process of modernization, which nowadays presents itself, above all, as globalization. A major orientation for America has been the millennial concept, fusing Puritan doctrines of salvation with Enlightenment notions of a perfectionistic teleology of history. The papers collected in this volume investigate the multi-dimensional topicality of the millennial concept, looking backward and ahead, thematizing lifeworlds and latent structural presences. Bisherige Forschungsschwerpunkte der Herausgeber: Georgi-Findlay: American West, Native American Studies Mohr: Postmodern Drama, Gothicism, Romanticism.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3825314693
• ISBN13: 9783825314699
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Universitatsverlag Winter
• Length: 276 Pages