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

by Robert Dawidoff

Book Overview

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.