…After studying at Harvard University for two years, he taught English and American literature at his alma mater Emporia College, the University of Oklahoma, and the University of Washington, but he had no contact with the East during his long teaching career. As a true Midwesterner, he maintained a populist stance, and his major work, “A History of the Main Trends in American Thought” (3 volumes, 1927-30), aims to reexamine from a liberal and Jeffersonian perspective the fundamental concepts that have come to be considered American. The first two volumes of this large work won the Pulitzer Prize (the third volume is unfinished), and its bold methods and conclusions had a great influence on intellectuals in the 1930s, establishing a paradigm for understanding American culture. However, his view of reality, which was based on his unwavering belief in “history as progress,” has been subject to severe criticism since the 1940s. … *Some of the terminology used in "The History of Mainstream American Thought" is listed below. Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information |
…ハーバード大学で2年間学んだあと,母校エンポーリア・カレッジ,オクラホマ大学,ワシントン大学で英米文学を講じたが,その長い教師生活において東部とはまったく没交渉であった。根っからの中西部人としてポピュリスト的な姿勢を貫いた彼の主著《アメリカ思想主潮史》3巻(1927‐30)は,〈アメリカ的とみなされるにいたった根本的な概念〉をリベラルでジェファソン主義的な立場から再検討することを目的としている。この大著は,最初の2巻がピュリッツァー賞を受け(第3巻は未完),大胆な方法と結論によって,1930年代の知識人に大きな影響を与え,アメリカ文化理解のためのパラダイムを確立するにいたったが,〈進歩としての歴史〉を信じてやまない彼の現実認識は,40年代以降になって,きびしい批判にさらされている。… ※「《アメリカ思想主潮史》」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。 出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報 |
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