{"product_id":"land-of-tomorrow-postwar-fiction-and-the-crisis-of-american-liberalism-9780190909376","title":"Land of Tomorrow: Postwar Fiction and the Crisis of American Liberalism","description":"American liberalism after the Second World War turned against the legacies of the New Deal era. Rather than extending the reforms of the 1930s, many expressions of postwar liberal thought recast organizational politics as enfeebling, alienating, or tyrannical.\u003cem\u003e Land of Tomorrow \u003c\/em\u003eexamines the\u003cbr\u003eideas and cultural sensibilities that caused this radical shift in the tenor of American liberalism. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTo account for these changes in American liberal sentiment, Benjamin Mangrum looks to some of the most influential writers, critics, and intellectuals of the postwar decades-including Ralph Ellison, Vladimir Nabokov, Lionel Trilling, Flannery O'Connor, and Saul Bellow, as well as the American\u003cbr\u003ereception of Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, Franz Kafka, and many other European thinkers. By revising established accounts of this body of cultural work, Mangrum charts the legitimization of new political sensibilities within the nation's intellectual life. These sensibilities opposed a social\u003cbr\u003edemocratic order and unleashed a new kind of liberalism, one which centered on ideas about authenticity, alienation, self-management, psychological templates for societal problems, and private judgments of value. This confluence of literary, intellectual, and political history gives us a window onto\u003cbr\u003ethe basic assumptions and key conceptual terrain of liberal thought after 1945. \u003cem\u003eLand of Tomorrow\u003c\/em\u003e thus offers a provocative cultural prehistory of political thinking's forms that remain with us today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Benjamin Mangrum\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/09\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.40w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780190909376\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBenjamin Mangrum\u003c\/strong\u003e holds a fellowship with the Michigan Society of Fellows and is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":39929226526835,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":87.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_030b25d9-65dd-441a-8018-8bbeb100897a.jpg?v=1647612055","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/land-of-tomorrow-postwar-fiction-and-the-crisis-of-american-liberalism-9780190909376","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}