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Full-Text Articles in Intellectual History
Demonstrative Faith In The Public And Private Life Of John Adams Based On His Writings, James A. Wicks
Demonstrative Faith In The Public And Private Life Of John Adams Based On His Writings, James A. Wicks
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John Adams was the second President of the United States (1797-1801). Considered to be a "passionate sage," many historians quote him in their manifold volumes. There is a problem, however, in many references to Adams' faith. Ignored, dismissed, and distorted by these writers, the context of Adams' life expediently conforms to secular writers' presuppositions and conclusions. These misrepresentations occur in lieu of the many references to God, Providence, and the Supreme Being found in his personal letters and other writings.
The purpose of this thesis was to chronicle elements of Adams' life related to his faith in public and private, …
Vietnam Reading, Rowan Cahill
Vietnam Reading, Rowan Cahill
Rowan Cahill
During Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War, the author was prominent in the anti-war movement, and a conscientious objector to the system of compulsory military service in place at the time. In this article he accounts for the intellectual development which shaped his politics. The focus of the article is the reading he did during the 1960s.
‘Cleansing’ The Discipline: Ernst Robert Curtius And His Medievalist Turn, Richard Utz
‘Cleansing’ The Discipline: Ernst Robert Curtius And His Medievalist Turn, Richard Utz
Richard Utz
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An American Generational Autobiography: Collective Identity In Malcolm Cowley's Exile's Return, John Hazlett
An American Generational Autobiography: Collective Identity In Malcolm Cowley's Exile's Return, John Hazlett
John D Hazlett
In the following chapter from Hazlett's book My Generation: Collective Autobiography and Identity Politics, the author argues that Malcolm Cowley's Exile's Return pioneered a new form of autobiographical narrative--the generational autobiography. Cowley's text relies for its underlying ideas of collective identity on generational theory, Marxism, and Emersoniansm.