Contents 
PREFACE TO THE PAPERBACK EDITION XI 
PREFACE XV 
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 
1. ROOTS OF ANTIMODERNISM: THE CRISIS 
OF CULTURAL AUTHORITY DURING THE LATE 
NINETEENTH CENTURY 3 
A Patlern of Evasive Banality: Official Modern Culture in Industrial 
America 7 
A Social Crisis: The Republican Tradition and the Radical Specter 26 
Unreal City: Social Science, Secularization, and the Emergence of 
Weightlessness 32 
A Psychic Crisis: Neurasthenia and the Emergence of a Therapeutic World 
View 47 . 
2. THE FIGURE OF THE ARTISAN: ARTS AND 
CRAFTS IDEOLOGY 59 
Origins of the American Craft Revival: Persons and Perceptions 66 
Revitalization and Transformation in Arts and Crafts Ideology: The Simple 
Life, Aestheticism, Educational Reform 74 
Reversing Antimodernism: The Factory, The Market, and The Process of 
Rationalization ~~ 83 
The Fate of the Craft Ideal g1 
83. THE DESTRUCTIVE ELEMENT: MODERN 
COMMERCIAL SOCIETY AND THE MARTIAL 
IDEAL 97 
From Domestic Realism to “Real Life” 104 
Class. Race. and the Worship of Force 107 
The Psychological Uses of the Martial Ideal: The Cult of Experience and the 
Quest for Authentic Selfhood 117 } 
The Psychological Uses of the Martial Ideal: Guiney. Norris, Adams 
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