Henry Adams and the Need to Know

Informationen zum Autor Author of The Literary Vocation of Henry Adams! William Merrill Decker is Professor of English at Oklahoma State University. Earl N. Harbert! author of The Force So Much Closer Home: Henry Adams and the Adams Family! is Professor Emeritus at Northeastern University. Klappentext The University of Virginia Press is proud to add the Massachusetts Historical Society to our list of distribution partners. Beginning immediately, we will be the exclusive distributor of the following new titles and backlist from the society's fine selection of books. For Henry Adams at the turn of the twentieth century, as for his successors in the twenty-first, the relation of mind to a world remade by technology and geopolitical conflict largely determined the destiny of civil life. Zusammenfassung Presents fourteen essays that articulate Adams' preoccupation with knowledge! stressing his eclecticism and his need to clarify the role of critical intelligence in public life. The topics covered range from international politics to portraiture! from orientalism and travel literature to the disintegration of the human mind.

Autorentext
Author of The Literary Vocation of Henry Adams, William Merrill Decker is Professor of English at Oklahoma State University. Earl N. Harbert, author of The Force So Much Closer Home: Henry Adams and the Adams Family, is Professor Emeritus at Northeastern University.

Klappentext
The University of Virginia Press is proud to add the Massachusetts Historical Society to our list of distribution partners. Beginning immediately, we will be the exclusive distributor of the following new titles and backlist from the society's fine selection of books. For Henry Adams at the turn of the twentieth century, as for his successors in the twenty-first, the relation of mind to a world remade by technology and geopolitical conflict largely determined the destiny of civil life.


Zusammenfassung
Presents fourteen essays that articulate Adams' preoccupation with knowledge, stressing his eclecticism and his need to clarify the role of critical intelligence in public life. The topics covered range from international politics to portraiture, from orientalism and travel literature to the disintegration of the human mind.

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