01:050:101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Native American Studies, Jeremiad, Henry Nash Smith
7 Apr 2017
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Unsettling origins, never a peaceful action that goes into moving into a new place a. i. Conflict between new people and natives: american exceptionalism b. i. Us shares one culture (1950) after the cold war: columbia c. i. Light contrasts the dark steps - hierarchy c. ii. c. iii. European notion c. v: american idea d. i. d. ii. Democratic society: anderson, imagined communities d. iii, nation as cultural artifact: imagined community b. Imagined: does not mean is not real ; shared symbols= tomb of the unknown. Nations are modern, but nationalists see antiquity of their nation. Power of concept vs its philosophical incoherence: limited: d. i. Imagining alternative community formations a: communities based on social class interests (marxism, communities based on individual identity/interest, virtual communities, puritan rhetoric, narrative of conversion as condition of membership, jeremiad (rise, fall, and redemption) c. God is the only reason you are here, you can fall at any time.
