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"A God Abandoned World": Terror, Tragedy, and Sublime Presence in Postwar America, 1945-1948
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"A God Abandoned World": Terror, Tragedy, and Sublime Presence in Postwar America, 1945-1948
Yazar:
Matlin, Clay, author.
ISBN:
9780355974805
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Fiziksel Tanımlama:
1 electronic resource (343 pages)
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Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-10(E), Section: A.
Advisors: Daniel H. Borus Committee members: A. Joan Saab; Robert B. Westbrook.
Özet:
At the end of the Second World War, American intellectuals---like much of the broader public---felt a profound sense of moral unease and ethical confusion. Decades of wayward depression had culminated in the war's horrific violence and the brutal revelation of the atomic bomb. With the war over, American intellectuals voiced their fears and sought a path forward in a frightening world.
This dissertation argues that amid the postwar cacophony, a diverse group of intellectuals carved out a discrete notion of the sublime that sought to engage with these transformed lives. Isaac Rosenfeld, Barnett Newman and others hoped to comprehend the horror the world had witnessed. Their ideas were not based on traditional notions of sublime awe. Instead, they argued for a kind of experience that comes amid terror and tragedy and alerts us to the indestructibility of moral life. This dissertation examines their art and writing, as well as their social milieu, as they sought a way forward for the moral life of the individual and the nation. By relating their work to the often-overlooked idea of the sublime, it begins to trace a theme that would shape the country's intellectual and cultural life to this day.
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School code: 0188
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