· Daniel T. Rodgers, a historian at Princeton, offers an interpretation that helps us understand the concerns currently dominating political, intellectual, and cultural life. In Age of Fracture, the winner of the Bancroft Prize, Rodgers argues that, between and , a key intellectual and cultural shift took bltadwin.ruted Reading Time: 6 mins. In this sense, Rodgers’s Age of Fracture is an environmental study; Rodgers seeks to reconstruct the ideational environment — the shared cultural imaginary — that gave rise to this particular, and particularly important, way of understanding the world as governed completely by the logic of “the market.” However, Daniel Rodgers is also a very traditional intellectual historian. In this wide-ranging narrative, Daniel T. Rodgers shows how the collective purposes and meanings that had framed social debate became unhinged and uncertain. Age of Fracture offers a powerful reinterpretation of the ways in which the decades surrounding the s changed America. Through a contagion of visions and metaphors, on both the intellectual right and the intellectual left, earlier Cited by:
All That Is Solid Fractures Andrew Hartman (Note: This review formed my comments as part of a roundtable on Age of Fracture at the U.S. Intellectual History Conference Stay tuned for further roundtable posts.) "All that is solid melts into air." Marx and Engels, "Concepts of society fragmented." Daniel T. Rodgers, "All [ ]. Age of Fracture - Kindle edition by Rodgers, Daniel T.. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Age of Fracture. Get this from a library! Age of fracture. [Daniel T Rodgers] -- In the last quarter of the twentieth century, the ideas that most Americans lived by started to fragment. Mid-century concepts of national consensus, managed markets, gender and racial identities.
I have never been quite able to pinpoint exactly what makes it so different. More than any other book I've read in recent years, Age of Fracture, by the Princeton historian Daniel T. Rodgers, has helped me to discover and to understand that difference His ability to explain complex ideas--the Coase theorem comes to mind--is exemplary. He is unapologetic about treating intellectuals, and even academics, as producers of ideas worth taking seriously. Daniel T. Rodgers, a historian at Princeton, offers an interpretation that helps us understand the concerns currently dominating political, intellectual, and cultural life. In Age of Fracture, the winner of the Bancroft Prize, Rodgers argues that, between and , a key intellectual and cultural shift took place. In this sense, Rodgers’s Age of Fracture is an environmental study; Rodgers seeks to reconstruct the ideational environment — the shared cultural imaginary — that gave rise to this particular, and particularly important, way of understanding the world as governed completely by the logic of “the market.” However, Daniel Rodgers is also a very traditional intellectual historian.
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