The American Mind - Allen C. Guelzo

Описание: Americans pride themselves on being doers rather than thinkers. Ideas are naturally suspect to such a people. But ideas are at the root of what it means to be American, and today’s habits of thought practiced by citizens throughout the United States are the lineal descendants of a powerful body of ideas that traces back to the first European settlers and that was enriched by later generations of American thinkers.
Behind this nation’s diverse views on religion, education, social equality, democracy, and other vital issues is a long-running intellectual debate about the right ordering of the human, natural, and divine worlds.
In their own times such great thinkers as Jonathan Edwards, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, William James, Martin Luther King, Jr., and many others engaged in lively and often contentious debate that helped mold America’s institutions and attitudes. Their approach was frequently honed by ideas from abroad—from Locke, Hume, Kant, Darwin, Marx, Freud, and Gandhi, among others.
This immensely stimulating conversation that made the U.S. what it is today is the subject of The American Mind, a series of 36 lectures that offers you a broad survey of American intellectual history.

Course Lecture Titles

1. The Intellectual Geography of America
2. The Technology of Puritan Thinking
3. The Enlightenment in America
4. Jonathan Edwards and the Great Awakening
5. The Colonial Colleges
6. Republican Fundamentals
7. Nature’s God and the American Revolution
8. Deism, Science, and Revolution
9. Hamilton and His Money
10. Jefferson and His Debts
11. The Edwardseans—From Hopkins to Finney
12. The Moral Philosophers
13. Whigs and Democrats
14. American Romanticism
15. Faith and Reason at Princeton
16. Romanticism in Mercersburg
17. Slaveholders and Abolitionists
18. Lincoln and Liberal Democracy
19. The Failure of the Genteel Elite
20. Darwin in America
21. Liberalism and the Social Gospel
22. The Agony of William James
23. Josiah Royce—The Idealist Dissenter
24. John Dewey and Social Pragmatism
25. Socialism in America
26. Populists, Progressives, and War
27. Decade of the Disenchanted
28. The Social Science Revolution
29. The New South versus the New Negro
30. FDR and the Intellectuals
31. Science under the Cloud
32. Ironic Judgments
33. Mass Culture and Mass Consumption
34. Integration and Separation
35. The Rebellion of the Privileged
36. The Neo-Conservatives

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