Age of Fracture

(Belknap Press of Harvard University Press) Rodgers examines the past 25 years showing how Americans’ understanding of the world has changed. He contends that Americans’ efforts, in the 1970s and after, to make sense of the world, had the affect of transforming categories of thoughts, dissolving overarching structures and patterns. The decreasing importance of structures led to an increased emphasis on the individual and market choices, impacting the discourse in subjects like economics, philosophy, and education. Rodgers is Henry Charles Lea Professor of History at Princeton University.