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“Who We Are”: Lawrence Levine as William Jamesian Pragmatist and as Gustave de Beaumont
Ist Teil von
The Journal of American history (Bloomington, Ind.), 2006-12, Vol.93 (3), p.761-771
Ort / Verlag
Oxford: Organization of American Historians
Erscheinungsjahr
2006
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Oxford Journals 2020 Humanities
Beschreibungen/Notizen
At least since the 1980s and surely since long before then, Levine has focused on, in his words, "who we are": what it means to be an American, as manifested in conceptions of the shape and meaning of the past.1 I want to relate his long-term preoccupation with American identity to the work of four of his predecessors: two aristocratic French friends and fellow travelers, Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) and Gustave de Beaumont (1802-1866), the American philosopher William James (1842-1910), and, of course, the contemporary who inspired Levine, Allan Bloom (1930-1992). Advertisements of all sorts celebrate a rainbow America, including gays and lesbians, and black people sell even financial services to wealthy readers of the New Yorker.