Animal Spirits: The American Pursuit of Vitality from Camp Meeting to Wall Street Lears Jackson
A master historian's retrieval of the spiritual visions and vitalisms that animate American life and the possibilities they offer today.In The Wild Card, the distinguished cultural historian Jackson…
Specifikacia Animal Spirits: The American Pursuit of Vitality from Camp Meeting to Wall Street Lears Jackson
A master historian's retrieval of the spiritual visions and vitalisms that animate American life and the possibilities they offer today.In The Wild Card, the distinguished cultural historian Jackson Lears tracks a tradition of thinkers and doers who propounded a gospel of the American spirit and its disruptive psychic energies. Lears traces the careers of ideas and fads such as vitalism, mesmerism, hypnosis, and faith healing from the pulpit and the stock exchange to the streets and the betting table, where the unruly "wild card" entered the game of poker in the 1870s.Alongside Walt Whitman and Ralph Waldo Emerson, we meet the great prophets of the American irrational who rejected the idea that modern life must be rational, mechanical or disenchanted: they include Andrew Jackson Davis, the "Poughkeepsie seer," who practiced the arts of clairvoyance with his
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