Some Elementary Axioms for an American Culture Studies 美国文学PPT.ppt

Some Elementary Axioms for an American Culture Studies 1930s-mid1960s: intellectual history consensus 1960s:the fragmentation of the consensus. 1960s-70s:intellectual history was supplanted by socal history Activities to converge on the myth and symbol school :old holistic faith ：academic waste land new pluralism：varietyvitality The crisis of information-overload increasing specialization of scholarly labor. Intellectual History Consensus 1,American culture is a more or less integrated whole. 2,The culture is most clearly expressed in the great ideas of American thoughts Puritanism,Rationalism,Transdentalism,Liberalism,Pragmatism,the Ideal of Progress. 3, In these ideas may be located The American Mind 4, Scholarly study should try and bring the separate disciplines together into a single,integrated vision. The burden of information-overload and interdisplinary culture studies information-overload:a state where people are engulfed by more than their minds an manage. expansion of infor. new subjects new methods the divison of labor :the productive work tasks are broken down and portions out to be industral assembly line difficulty in cross-departmental mobility The Contribution-to-Kownledge Model in Historical Perspective Assembly-line mentality:motivates schoarly producing inside carefully patrolled academic bounduries. American historical profession. men of letters :subjective art academician :objectve science Geoge Burton Adams :patient investigator of facts. :facts=raw materials be passed through the assembly line of factories of scholarships increasing quantatitydecreasing quality ReflectiveSociology and the Dahrendorf Strategy of Scholarship 1958 Ralf Dahrendorf Homo Sociologicus :try and concentrate on a precise point where the soc