Wilfred M Mcclay
Biographic Data
| ID | 302047 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wilfred M Mcclay |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wilfred M |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcclay |
| SIGNATURE | MCCLAY W M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tennessee at Chattanooga |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Upside of Rage
Reunifying History in the Age of Fracture
Why place matters: Geography, identity, and civic life in modern America
Contemporary American society, with its emphasis on mobility and economic progress, all too often loses sight of the importance of a sense of and community. Appreciating place is essential for building the strong local communities that cultivate civic engagement, public leadership, and many of the other goods that contribute to a flourishing human life. Do we, in losing our places, lose the crucial basis for healthy and resilient individual ident…
From Moral Threat to Symbolic Promise: Shifting Views of Popular Culture
Some twenty years ago, the American sociologist Robert Wuthnow found in an opinion survey that his subjects consistently expressed extraordinarily conflicting attitudes toward money, proclaiming in one breath that Americans are too materialistic, and then in the next breath unashamedly affirming money's central importance, and wishing they had more of it. At the time, Wuthnow argued that these strikingly contradictory results probably reflected s…
The Relevance of Higher Education: Exploring a Contested Notion
Most statements today about higher education begin with the assumption that it should be relevant. That it should be relevant, however, does not settle the matter. The significance of relevance depends on the power of something else that is more fundamental. Relevance may be a true standard of judgment, but it does not stand by itself. Assuming higher education should be relevant, the question emerges, relevant to what? Why? How? At what costs? A…
The Problem of Citizenship in an Internationalized Academy
Response to Papers by Major, Baldwin, and Bailey: Democratic Statesmanship and the Blue Guitar
Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age
Journal Article Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age Get access Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age. Edited by Michael Warner, Jonathan VanAntwerpen, and Craig Calhoun. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010. 352pp. $45.00. Wilfred M. McClay Wilfred M. McClay University of Tennessee at ChattanoogaChattanooga, Tennessee [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Church …
David Riesman and The Lonely Crowd
The Weakness of Our Political Parties
Secularism, American-Style
Christianity and dual loyalty
The mixed nature of American patriotism
Two Concepts of Secularism
Looking back over the century just ended, it is not easy to assess the status and prospects of secularism and the secular ideal in the United States. As is so often the case in American history, when one sets out in search of the simple and obvious, one soon comes face to face with a crowd of paradoxes. The psychologist Erik Erikson once observed that Americans have a talent for sustaining opposites, and he could hardly have been more right. Such…
The Truth of History
Journal Article The Truth of History. By C. Behan McCullagh. (New York: Routledge, 1998. viii, 327 pp. Cloth, $75.00, ISBN 0-415-17110-5. Paper, $24.99, ISBN 0-415-17111-3.) Get access Wilfred M. McClay Wilfred M. McClay Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 201–202, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567423 Publish…
The Rise of the Imperial Self: America's Culture Wars in Augustinian Perspective . Ronald W. Dworkin
Sociology
The Southern Front: History and Politics in the Cultural War
Marxist historian Eugene Genovese has had a profound influence on the fields of Southern history and black studies and has made a significant contribution to intellectual exchange. In this book, Genovese offers a series of engaging and highly provocative reflections on history--particularly Southern history--and politics in the cultural war
The Southern Tradition: The Achievement and Limitations of an American Conservatism
The state of American higher education: A conversation with David Riesman
The state of American higher education: A conversation with David Riesman, part two
Before the Shooting Begins: Searching for Democracy in America's Culture War
The Masterless: Self and Society in Modern America
In this provocative book, Wilfred McClay considers the long-standing tension between individualism and social cohesion in conceptions of American culture. Exploring ideas of unity and diversity as they have evolved since the Civil War, he illuminates the historical background to our ongoing search for social connectedness and sources of authority in a society increasingly dominated by the premises of individualism. McClay borrows D. H. Lawrence's…
The Masterless: Self & Society in Modern America
The Masterless: Self & Society in Modern America. By Wilfred M. McClay. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994. xiv, 366 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8078-2117-9. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-8078-4419-5.) Get access T. J. Jackson Lears T. J. Jackson Lears Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 3, December 1995, Page…
The Masterless: Self and Society in Modern America
Two Concepts of Secularism
Looking back over the century just ended, it is not easy to assess the status and prospects of secularism and the secular ideal in the United States. As is so often the case in American history, when one sets out in search of the simple and obvious, one soon comes face to face with a crowd of paradoxes. The psychologist Erik Erikson once observed that Americans have a talent for sustaining opposites, and he could hardly have been more right. Such…
John W. Burgess & the Search for Cohesion in American Political Thought
John W. Burgess was one of the founders of political science in the United States. Profoundly influenced by the American Civil War and inspired by the spectacle of a powerful and unified Germany, Burgess created an œuvre that epitomized the centripetal, nation-building emphasis of early professional political science in the U.S. Yet, as this article argues, he never succeeded entirely in reconciling his Hegelian corporatism with the Anglo-America…
The Masterless: Self and Society in Modern America
The mixed nature of American patriotism
A Babylonian in Zion
American Letters and the Historical Consciousness: Essays in Honor of Lewis P. Simpson
New Perspectives on Historical Writing
Journal Article New Perspectives on Historical Writing. Ed. by Peter Burke. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1991. Cloth, $32.50, ISBN 0-271-00827-X. Paper, $13.95, ISBN 0-271-00834-2.) Get access Wilfred M. McClay Wilfred M. McClay Tulane University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 4, March 1993, Pages 1566–1567, https://doi.org/10.2307/20…
John W. Burgess & the Search for Cohesion in American Political Thought
John W. Burgess was one of the founders of political science in the United States. Profoundly influenced by the American Civil War and inspired by the spectacle of a powerful and unified Germany, Burgess created an œuvre that epitomized the centripetal, nation-building emphasis of early professional political science in the U.S. Yet, as this article argues, he never succeeded entirely in reconciling his Hegelian corporatism with the Anglo-America…
Clio in 2013: The writing and teaching of history in the next twenty years
Historical research on the refugee intellectuals: Problems and prospects
The End of American Exceptionalism: Frontier Anxiety from the Old West to the New Deal
Journal Article The End of American Exceptionalism: Frontier Anxiety from the Old West to the New Deal. By David M. Wrobel. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1993. x, 233 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-7006-0561-4.) Get access Wilfred M. McClay Wilfred M. McClay Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 4, March 1994, Page 1489, https:/…
The state of American higher education: A conversation with David Riesman
The state of American higher education: A conversation with David Riesman, part two
Before the Shooting Begins: Searching for Democracy in America's Culture War
The Masterless: Self and Society in Modern America
In this provocative book, Wilfred McClay considers the long-standing tension between individualism and social cohesion in conceptions of American culture. Exploring ideas of unity and diversity as they have evolved since the Civil War, he illuminates the historical background to our ongoing search for social connectedness and sources of authority in a society increasingly dominated by the premises of individualism. McClay borrows D. H. Lawrence's…
The Masterless: Self & Society in Modern America
The Masterless: Self & Society in Modern America. By Wilfred M. McClay. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994. xiv, 366 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8078-2117-9. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-8078-4419-5.) Get access T. J. Jackson Lears T. J. Jackson Lears Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 3, December 1995, Page…
The Masterless: Self and Society in Modern America
The socialization of desire
The Southern Front: History and Politics in the Cultural War
Marxist historian Eugene Genovese has had a profound influence on the fields of Southern history and black studies and has made a significant contribution to intellectual exchange. In this book, Genovese offers a series of engaging and highly provocative reflections on history--particularly Southern history--and politics in the cultural war
The Southern Tradition: The Achievement and Limitations of an American Conservatism
Sociology
The Rise of the Imperial Self: America's Culture Wars in Augustinian Perspective . Ronald W. Dworkin
The Truth of History
Journal Article The Truth of History. By C. Behan McCullagh. (New York: Routledge, 1998. viii, 327 pp. Cloth, $75.00, ISBN 0-415-17110-5. Paper, $24.99, ISBN 0-415-17111-3.) Get access Wilfred M. McClay Wilfred M. McClay Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 201–202, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567423 Publish…
Two Concepts of Secularism
Looking back over the century just ended, it is not easy to assess the status and prospects of secularism and the secular ideal in the United States. As is so often the case in American history, when one sets out in search of the simple and obvious, one soon comes face to face with a crowd of paradoxes. The psychologist Erik Erikson once observed that Americans have a talent for sustaining opposites, and he could hardly have been more right. Such…
The mixed nature of American patriotism
Christianity and dual loyalty
Secularism, American-Style
The Weakness of Our Political Parties
David Riesman and The Lonely Crowd
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