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Dimensions of a New Identity
by Erik H. Erikson.
125 pgs.

Dimensions of a New Identity: The 1973 Jefferson Lectures in the Humanities. 第二屆

Contributors:

Erik H. Erikson

Publisher:

W. W. Norton

Place of Publication:

New York

Publication Year:

1974

Table of contents

	Preface	7
	I. THE FOUNDERS: JEFFERSONIAN ACTION AND FAITH	9
	Introduction: From Case History to History II
	The View from Monticello	17
	New World, New Species	27
	The Perspective of the Mount	39
	Protean President	51
	II. THE INHERITORS: MODERN INSIGHT AND FORESIGHT	61
	The "Living Generation" and Other Quotations	63
	The Old New Identity	75
	From the Ground Up	85
	Crisis of the Identity Crisis	99
	Liberation and Insight	113
	Conclusion: A Century of the Adult?	121

I: ROMANTICISM AND RESISTANCE

Mary Favret

He died, and the world showed no outward sign. . . . He died, and his place . . . has never been filled up. Mary Shelley, Preface to The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Any objective method, duly verified, belies the initial contact with the object. It must first scrutinize everything...

II: CULTURE AND CRITICISM

Laurie Langbauer

Writing in the first issue of Cultural Studies , the Australian critic Jennifer Craik cites Stuart Hall and Tony Bennett to argue that "the development of cultural studies has seen an uneasy alliance. . . which overlooks the intrinsic incommensurability...

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