Americanism: Counterculture and Common Sense
No matter whether the empirical structural analyses of "political life," including the in-depth studies of individuals and groups, are intended to supplement, deepen, or confirm an understanding…
No matter whether the empirical structural analyses of "political life," including the in-depth studies of individuals and groups, are intended to supplement, deepen, or confirm an understanding…
Only after the convulsions of World War II did American self-criticism very reluctantly abandon the influence of monumental history. The search of representative minds in the humanities,…
On the level of pragmatic existence, the watershed results from the civilizing process. Self-contained, autonomous, independent agrarian America is transformed into urbanized, industrialized America, and this new…
The Social Function of the World of National Symbols Even before 1860, the infinite variety of civic associations of every sort and with different public and private…
With the exception of Washington, all the Founding Fathers had, of course, to travel the road from the controversial to the noncontroversial sphere. Franklin, Jefferson, and Lincoln…
Monumental History The process by which the founders' consciousness created itself a social field in the new society and the authority of an ultimate source of order…