| Edition |
Library edition. |
| Description |
18 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 3 course guidebooks. |
| Series |
The great courses |
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Great courses (Compact disc)
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| Note |
"Philosophy & Intellectual history"--Container cover. |
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Course guidebooks for each part laid in each of three containers. |
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"The Great courses teaching that engages the mind"--Container cover. |
| System Details |
Compact discs. |
| Performer |
Lecturer: Allen C. Guelzo, Gettysburg College. |
| Summary |
A broad survey of American intellectual history ; a history of the ideas, the thinkers and the institutions that have mattered most to Americans. Lectures 1- 36. |
| Contents |
Part 1. Lecture 1. The intellectual geography of America -- Lecture 2. The technology of Puritan thinking -- Lecture 3.The Enlightenment in America -- Lecture 4. Jonathan Edwards and the great awakening -- Lecture 5. The colonial colleges -- Lecture 6. Republican fundamentals -- Lecture 7. Nature's god and the American revolution -- Lecture 8. Deism, science, and revolution -- Lecture 9. Hamilton and his money -- Lecture 10. Jefferson and his debts -- Lecture 11. The Edwardseans: from Hopkins to Finney -- Lecture 12. The moral philosophers. |
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Part 2. Lecture 13. Whigs and Democrats -- Lecture 14. American romanticism -- Lecture 15. Faith and reason at Princeton -- Lecture 16. Romanticism in Mercersburg -- Lecture 17. Slaveholders and abolitionists -- Lecture 18. Lincoln and liberal democracy -- Lecture 19. The failure of the genteel elite -- Lecture 20. Darwin in America -- Lecture 21. Liberalism and the social gospel -- Lecture 22. The agony of William James -- Lecture 23. Josiah Royce, the idealist dissenter -- Lecture 24. John Dewey and social pragmatism. |
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Part 3. Lecture 25. Socialism in America -- Lecture 26. Populists, progressives, and war -- Lecture 27. Decade of the disenchanted -- Lecture 28. The social science revolution -- Lecture 29. The New South versus the new Negro -- Lecture 30. FDR and the intellectuals -- Lecture 31. Science under the cloud -- Lecture 32. Ironic judgments -- Lecture 33. Mass culture and mass consumption -- Lecture 34. Integration and separation -- Lecture 35. The rebellion of the privileged -- Lecture 36. The neo-conservatives. |
| Note |
GMD: sound recording. |
| Subject |
Philosophy, American.
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| Added Author |
Teaching Company.
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| ISBN |
1598031112: $199.95 |
| Standard No. |
9781598031119 |
| Music No. |
4880-01 Teaching Company |
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4880-02 Teaching Company |
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4880-03 Teaching Company |
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