Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Ellwood, David W.

Titel

A ‘Reference Culture’ That Divides: America and the Politics of Change in the West From Nietzsche to Soft Power

Ist Teil von

• International Journal for History, Culture and Modernity, 2015-03, Vol.3 (3), p.35-52

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This article seeks to demonstrate that America’s unique ability to invent models of ‘modernity’ lies at the heart of its continuing role as a ‘reference culture’. However, this forceful and dynamic reality has a profoundly dividing effect on every society with which it comes into contact. The consequent cleavages, I suggest, are an enduring outcome of any engagement with America’s power as a reference culture of modernity.