The Genteel Tradition And The Sacred Rage: High Culture vs. Democracy in Adams, James & Santayana by Robert Dawidoff
The Genteel Tradition And The Sacred Rage: High Culture vs. Democracy in Adams, James & Santayana

Robert Dawidoff

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

Cultural Studies of the United States

Robert Dawidoff

244 pages first pub 1992 (editions)

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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 detachment he identifies as Tocquevillian. In ...

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