"From Paris and other European centers in 1830 the United States were not a prepossessing sight. Visitors who had been well received and were in general complimentary to their local hosts were censorious about the rest of the country. The revolutionaries of 1789 in France had considered the Americans of 1776 freedom fighters of their own temper - mistakenly, but that image had vanished with the century. In the next, from Captain Basil Hall to Charles Dickens and Mrs. Trollope, the picture is that of a people without manners or discrimination and boastful besides. With one exception to be noted, the other critics - those who stayed away - interpreted the new nation as the land where equality was maintained at the expense of intellect and the arts, both virtually non-existent. In their place, energetic go-getting and beaming self-satisfaction fulfilled everyone's aspirations. The elections of the common-man President Jackson in 1828 had eliminated any remnants of the cultivated outlook acquired by the Founding Fathers from the French and English Enlightenment.
Crude though the portrait was, it is true that the American intellectual class that did exist in the 1830s looked less and less to England and France for ideas. It was Germany that fed them. Even when they read Coleridge and Carlyle, the leaders of advanced thought in England, they were receiving a dose of German ideas. Chief among American Germanists was professor George Ticknor of Harvard. He, George Bancroft (later the first national historian), and a few others had gone to German universities and carried home the message of Herder and Geothe, Kant and Schiller in all its poetical and philosophical strength. Ticknor in turn imparted it to young Emerson and his classmates.
The virgin soil of the New World was without Middle Ages waiting to be rediscovered, and the people had no firsthand memories of Bourbons and Napoleons. So what dominated the minds of young American geniuses was the religious emotion, the love of nature, the spirituality of art, the value of INDIVIDUALISM^1, and the hope of creating a national culture based on the uniqueness of the American experience. On all points Emerson is representative. Trained for the Unitarian ministry, the least demanding of Christian sects, he gave it up under the influence of Montaigne, who led him to ponder the lessons of nature and to vivify his own poetic version of Eastern thought. The impassive divinity diffused through the cosmos afforded him
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I looked at the comment history of one of them and they are active on drumroll please r/dating... They write incel-esque comments, one of them saying something along the lines of everyone here is lying to you, PM me with a photo, height, and penis size, and I'll give you real advice.
So if they give a fuck about defending Islam, what the fuck are they doing on dating subreddits, talking like they know what they're on about (according to this don, 90% of women reject a guy because of them being short), even though they're going against their alleged faith. Seriously, what devout Muslim would write bollocks like that on posts about an OP struggling in that aspect of life?
Last night, my friend discovered a webpage for a private school in Port Hope, Ontario. The website looked mundane enough, it had some news posts, it had some photographs of students and staff doing school stuff, you know, the usual things one might expect to see on a school's website. However, looking deeper, one will find that the address this school is supposedly located at is none other than a building that has seemingly been abandoned since at least 2014. In addition, my friend walked past the building a few weeks ago, and the building showed signs of abandonment, such as boarded up windows, and there were no signs of any activity there either. Is this school real? Is it an elaborate hoax? What is going on here?
BTW I do know there are a couple of schools that are free through a lottery, for about 40 kids. If there are a so few seats, it is not really an option for most families is it?
Where did the term cultural appropriation actually come from? I'm trying to figure this out and for the life of me can't find a straight answer.
In this Oxford Reference article, no single point of origin is mentioned, in fact, it is striking how none of the cited authors actually use the term being defined in the reference article:
- Concerning Kenneth Coutts‐Smith, "he himself does not [use] the phrase ‘cultural appropriation.'"
- New Negro and Harlem Renaissance writers wrote about the issue, "though not in these terms."
- Michael North is cited as "One of the finest discussions of these issues," but, [can you guess what comes next?] he "does not use the term ‘cultural appropriation’."
So, what's the deal? Where exactly did this specific term come from? Was it something that emerged first in public discourse, and was only thereafter taken up (appropriated?) by academics? Or is there an intellectual history that this reference article is, in fact, missing?
I notice that the whole generation above me seems a lot more intellect than I do, and I think it comes to the fact that access to the internet and TV were limited, and they had to pass their time with legit hobbies and reading good book. I'm currently in the process of fixing my social media addiction. I would really appreciate resources to help me become more knowledgeable on many different topics of my interests, I'm still finding it hard to read books and focus in them. So I would appreciate any tips or any websites that have blogs or YouTube videos or FREE documentaries on topics like history/politics/sociology etc.
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Is there any student that was once studied in a Necta school and then switched to a Cambridge one? If yes, kindly share with me your experiences either in the comment section or in my dm. I'm interested to know the differences you observed between the two learning environments.
Thanks!
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Hoping it is ok to solicit program recommendations in this subreddit. I am currently looking into applying for the MAs in intellectual history/political thought at Cambridge and University College London. Cambridge has the obvious institutional prestige, but no specialists in my research area. UCL has someone I'd really like to work with, and so I'd just like to get a better idea of how much of step down I will be taking in terms of 'clout' by going there. I am aware it is a good school, held in reasonably high regard, but having Cambridge (or Oxford) on one's transcript has always seemed to me like such a golden ticket that it would almost be worth inventing a new research topic for myself, even one I'm not interested in, just for the doors it will open down the road.
I recently found out about the professor at UCL, but did not know much about the university nor the program prior. I know they have Quentin Skinner, which is an obvious boon, but, nonetheless; so any advice or information about the program will be appreciated!
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My interest: math and business are my strongest subjects so I would like to do a course at university that is suitable for those subjects.
COURSES IB: HL: bio, design technology, business SL: Spanish inito, math AA, English lit TOK
A LEVELS(I would do) Bio, Math, business
UNIVERSITY LOCATION: Canada
The reason I am reconsidering my choice of IB is because I’m not I tested in Spanish and English and I worry this may affect my results/ performance at the end of the course and I have a better chance of doing well overall doing a levels.
The work also daunts me, it seems like so much and although I’m willing to do whatever it takes to get into a good university (and yes, I know a levels is hard too) I feel as though I could do just as well doing a levels and have a lighter work load (as in not as many subjects)
However the social aspect would be gone as not many people go to the a level school for my year (around 8 people mostly guys) but school is for education and I know I can always see people outside of school.
Also, due to the fact that I want to go to Canada, do you think that it would be difficult to get into university doing the a level courses that I have chosen or even just in general
Three Tier Question – Book Recommendations Please
Hello All! I'm a graduate student in theology studying patristic theologies. However, as I look ahead to my PhD I am considering moving forward in time a little bit and studying the medieval period, particular monks, monasteries, and intellectual history in Western Europe (especially especially British Isles, Ireland, Wales, etc.).
I am here for book recommendations. I have read lots on the subject, but mostly through the lens of philosophy and theology, and either way there is lots more to read I'm sure. What I'm looking for are books that handle three main topics:
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Broader histories and information on the medieval period, especially in Western Europe/British Isles and surrounding areas. I'd like to get more well versed in the time period in general.
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Those dealing with intellectual history and schools of thought in medieval period
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Books dealing with monks/monasteries during the medieval period (including books about monks/monasteries and books by monks)
If you have any recommendations that would fit in one of these categories, I would be most appreciative.
Many thanks!
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