- Title
- Anti-Americanism in European literature
- Creator
- Gulddal, Jesper
- Relation
- Studies in European Culture and History
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Resource Type
- book
- Date
- 2011
- Description
- This book is not a polemical work. It is not written in defense of the United States, nor in an attempt to somehow pour scorn on Europe or European culture. If it springs from any basic sentiment, it is simply one of exasperation with the simple-minded prejudices against the American "other" in which European authors have reveled far too often over the past two centuries. In the words of Spanish philosopher Jose Ortega y Gasset, writing in 1930: "The mass of puerile judgments made on the United States in Europe is one of the most perturbing aspects of European thinking, especially when even the most cultured people are prone to them. It is a particular instance of the disproportion between the complexity of present-day problems and the capacity of our minds to deal with them."
- Subject
- anti-Americanism; European literature; European culture
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1036613
- Identifier
- uon:13326
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780230120820
- Language
- eng
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