History and Progress: In Search of European and American IdentityBloomsbury Academic, 1989 M09 20 - 459 páginas Concisely written and compelling, this book offers a provocative look at European-American relations. It focuses on the tradition of common political ideas, the original roots of common European and American thought, the decision by the two continents not to develop in isolation from one another, and the traditional ambivalence of the European caught indecisively between reliance upon and distance from the United States. From classical antiquity to contemporary society, Mathiopoulos unfolds the paradoxical relationship between the U.S. and Europe--the simultaneous occurrence of reciprocal attraction and mutual misunderstanding. She describes how America was born of European intellectual stock; enlightenment, reason, (religious) freedom, equality, democracy, the rights of man and the desire to achieve these things in the New World. She also tells us that the idealism of progress of the European enlightenment gave rise to the American Dream which constitutes the consciousness of the American people and is woven into their domestic and foreign policy to this day. This stimulating book will interest anyone involved in the field of comparative political thought as well as those interested in the evolutionary and revolutionary process of the idea of progress in Europe and the United States. |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-3 de 60
... institutions sharing powers . With the system of government of separate , power - sharing institutions , with the system of checks and balances and the separation of church and state ( “ no bishop , no king " ) , the United States ...
... institutions and the actual realization of American ideals and the American creed . The aims and aspirations of the rebelling American students were clearly articulated in the idealistic speech by the law student Meldon E. Levine at ...
... institutions of that country we could not adopt , and we cast our eyes beyond the Atlantic , where we found a great people worthy of entire imitation , and it is the institutions of that people we have chiefly inscribed upon our organic ...
Contenido
The Idea of Progress in the American | 1 |
From Classical Antiquity to Modern Times | 7 |
The Crisis of Europe in the Twentieth Century | 19 |
Derechos de autor | |
Otras 25 secciones no mostradas
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
History and Progress: In Search of European and American Identity Margarita Mathiopoulos Vista de fragmentos - 1989 |
History and Progress: In Search of European and American Identity Margarita Mathiopoulos Sin vista previa disponible - 1989 |
Términos y frases comunes
Referencias a este libro
Technology and the Culture of Progress in Meiji Japan David G. Wittner Sin vista previa disponible - 2008 |