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The Education of Henry AdamsBy Henry Adams
The Education of Henry Adams (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)
Henry Adams
Royal Classics
2024
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The Education of Henry Adams is an autobiographical reflection by Henry Adams, published in 1907, exploring his personal and intellectual development amid the sweeping political, social, and technological changes of the 19th and early 20th centuries. As a member of the influential Adams family, Adams chronicles his privileged upbringing, diplomatic experiences, and scholarly pursuits while questioning traditional education's effectiveness in preparing individuals for the complexities of the modern world.Written in the third person, the book critiques the challenges of adapting to modernity, symbolized by the shift from historical religious faith ("the Virgin") to industrial power ("the dynamo"). Adams grapples with the disorienting effects of scientific and industrial advancements, offering a profound meditation on the limitations of education. The Education of Henry Adams earned a posthumous Pulitzer Prize in 1919 and remains a significant work in American literature for its insights into modern life's complexities.This case laminate collector's edition includes a Victorian inspired dust-jacket.
The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams
The Education of Henry Adams By Henry Adams
THIS volume, written in 1905 as a sequel to the same author's "Mont Saint Michel and Chartres," was privately printed, to the number of one hundred copies, in 1906, and sent to the persons interested, for their assent, correction, or suggestion. The idea of the two books was thus explained at the end of Chapter XXIX: - "Any schoolboy could see that man as a force must be measured by motion from a fixed point. Psychology helped here by suggesting a unit - the point of history when man held the highest idea of himself as a unit in a unified universe. Eight or ten years of study had led Adams to think he might use the century 1150-1250, expressed in Amiens Cathedral and the Works of Thomas Aquinas, as the unit from which he might measure motion down to his own time, without assuming anything as true or untrue, except relation. The movement might be studied at once in philosophy and mechanics. Setting himself to the task, he began a volume which he mentally knew as 'Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres: a Study of Thirteenth-Century Unity.' From that point he proposed to fix a position for himself, which he could label: 'The Education of Henry Adams: a Study of Twentieth-Century Multiplicity.
Im Mittelpunkt der Studie steht die Analyse der Education of Henry Adams, einer Autobiographie, die in den USA als eines der wirkungsstärksten Literaturwerke Nordamerikas angesehen wird, in Europa aber mehr und weniger unbeachtet geblieben ist. Besonders die Genre-Diskussion um dieses Werk ist negativ gekennzeichnet durch die Unschärfen, die die Gattungsmerkmale an sich betreffen. Dir Interpretation des Schlüsselbegriffs education als Derivat des mittellateinischen Verbums educare (= eligire, proferre, liberare) ergibt, daß die Education eindeutig dem Genre Autobiographie zuzuordnen ist. Daß dies Adams' Intentionen entspricht, zeigt ein detaillierter Vergleich der Education mit der Summa Theologica des Th. v. Aquin und Augustinus' Confessiones.
