Figures in the Carpet: Finding the Human Person in the American PastWhat does it mean to be a human person? This volume is a historical inquiry into that foundational, deceptively simple question. Viewing the human person from various perspectives -- law, education, business, media, religion, medicine, community life, gender, art -- sixteen historians of American life explore how our understanding of personhood has changed over time and how that changing understanding has significantly affected our ideas about morality and human rights, our conversations about public policy, and our American culture as a whole. |
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Table des matières
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17501920 Daniel Wickberg | 129 |
Gender and Religion at the Turn of the Century 18651930 Margaret Bendroth | 162 |
Social Selfhood Corporate Humanism and Religious Longing in American Management Theory 19081956 Eugene McCarraher | 185 |
The Virtual Self and the Socialization Crisis Elisabeth LaschQuinn | 232 |
A Personal Response to The Triumph of the Therapeutic Thomas R Cole | 265 |
Ivan Ilichs Critique of Modern Medicine Christopher Shannon | 318 |
Christopher Laschs Journey Eric Miller | 347 |
Daniel Walker Howe | 373 |
A Historical and Theological Problem John T McGreevy | 405 |
And What It Tells Us about American Society and Law Charles J Reid Jr | 428 |
Changing Perceptions of Marriage and Personhood in the EarlyTwentiethCentury United States Christine Rosen | 446 |
The United States and the Truth and Reconciliation Idea Richard H King | 468 |
Index | 497 |
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Page 147 - As we have no immediate experience of what other men feel, we can form no idea of the manner in which they are affected, but by conceiving what we ourselves should feel in the like situation.
Page 187 - TJ Jackson Lears, No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture, 1880-1920 (New York: Pantheon, 1981...
Page 150 - It is a peculiar sensation, this doubleconsciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.
Page 47 - We are not only gregarious animals, liking to be in sight of our fellows, but we have an innate propensity to get ourselves noticed, and noticed favorably, by our kind. No more fiendish punishment could be devised, were such a thing physically possible, than that one should be turned loose in society and remain absolutely unnoticed by all the members thereof. If no one turned round when we entered, answered when we spoke, or minded what we did, but if every person we met "cut us dead...
Page 384 - It shall be the duty of the general assembly, as soon as circumstances will permit, to provide, by law, for a general system of education, ascending in a regular gradation from township schools to a state university, wherein tuition shall be gratis, and equally open to all.
Page 324 - I esteem it the office of a physician not only to restore health, but to mitigate pain and dolors ; and not only when such mitigation may conduce to recovery, but when it may serve to make a fair and easy passage...
Page 64 - Be loyal. If one asks, Loyal to what? the conscience, awakened by our whole personal response to the need of mankind replies, Be loyal to loyalty. If, hereupon, various loyalties seem to conflict, the conscience says: Decide. If one asks, How decide? conscience further urges, Decide as I, your conscience, the ideal expression of your whole personal nature, conscious and unconscious, find best.
Page 374 - HERE WAS BURIED THOMAS JEFFERSON AUTHOR OF THE DECLARATION OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, OF THE STATUTE OF VIRGINIA FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, AND FATHER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: because by these, as testimonials that I have lived, I wish most to be remembered.
Page 59 - Pragmatism is willing to take anything, to follow either logic or the senses and to count the humblest and most personal experiences. She will count mystical experiences if they have practical consequences.

