Animal spirits : the American pursuit of vitality from camp meeting to wall street / Jackson Lears.

By:

Lears, Jackson [author]

Language: English Publication details: New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2024.ISBN:

9781250335654

Subject(s):

Geography and Travel in the United States

Summary: In Animal Spirits, the distinguished historian Jackson Lears explores an alternative American cultural history by tracking the thinkers who championed the individual’s spontaneous energies and the idea of a living universe against the strictures of conventional religion, business, and politics. From Puritan times to today, Lears traces ideas and fads such as hypnosis and faith healing from the pulpit and stock exchange to the streets and the betting table. We meet the great prophets of American vitality, from Walt Whitman and William James to Andrew Jackson Davis (the “Poughkeepsie Seer”) and the “New Thought” pioneer Helen Wilmans, who spoke of the “god within―rendering us diseaseless incarnations of the great I Am.

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Print List(s) this item appears in: Global Library New Arrivals June 2026

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	Print		OPJGU Sonepat- Campus	General Books	Main Library	917.3 LE-A (Browse shelf(Opens below))					Checked out		18/08/2026	159416

In Animal Spirits, the distinguished historian Jackson Lears explores an alternative American cultural history by tracking the thinkers who championed the individual’s spontaneous energies and the idea of a living universe against the strictures of conventional religion, business, and politics. From Puritan times to today, Lears traces ideas and fads such as hypnosis and faith healing from the pulpit and stock exchange to the streets and the betting table. We meet the great prophets of American vitality, from Walt Whitman and William James to Andrew Jackson Davis (the “Poughkeepsie Seer”) and the “New Thought” pioneer Helen Wilmans, who spoke of the “god within―rendering us diseaseless incarnations of the great I Am.

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