T. J. Jackson Lears
T. J. Jackson Lears (born 1947) is an American cultural and intellectual historian with interests in comparative religious history, literature and the visual arts, folklore and folk beliefs.
"It may seem unlikely that there is still something original to say about deep America; so many brilliant minds, starting with Tocqueville, have been at work deciphering the paradoxes of our all too mythic, all too preponderant country. But if anyone can, it is likely to be the author of Something for Nothing.No one is thinking with more spiritedness and subtlety about the roots (and ethical tangle) of American culture and the distinctive American pursuit of happiness than Jackson Lears," Susan Sontag wrote in 2003. [1]
Life
Lears was educated at the University of Virginia, the University of North Carolina, and Yale University, where he received a Ph.D. in American Studies.
He has held fellowships from the
He has been a regular contributor to
He has taught at Yale University, the University of Missouri, and New York University.
Lears is the Board of Governors Distinguished Professor of History at
He has written essays and reviews in The New York Times, The Nation, The New York Review of Books, the London Review of Books, The New Republic, and other magazines.
Books
- No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture, 1880–1920 (1981).
- Fables of Abundance: A Cultural History of Advertising in America (1994).
- Something for Nothing: Luck in America (2003).
- Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America, 1877–1920 (2009).
- Animal Spirits: the American Pursuit of Vitality from Camp Meeting to Wall Street (2023)
Articles
- ISBN 978-0190660383, 287 pp.), The New York Review of Books, vol. LXVI, no. 2 (February 7, 2019), pp. 8-10.
- terrorist attack should be a US war or an international police action. [...] Debating tortureor other abuses, while indisputably valuable, has diverted Americans from 'deliberating on the deeper choice they were making to ignore constraints on starting war in the first place.' [W]ar itself causes far more suffering than violations of its rules." (p. 40.)
- ^ Susan Sontag, endorsement for Jackson Lears, Something for Nothing: :Luck in America New York: Viking Press, 2003, p. ii. ''
External links
- Jackson Lears, faculty page, Rutgers University
- Articles by Jackson Lears in The New York Times
- Articles by Jackson Lears in The Nation
- Articles by Jackson Lears in The London Review of Books
- Articles by Jackson Lears in The New Republic
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