Powers calls for a new historical synthesis that differentiates between sensible anti-Communism and the McCarthyite variety, then helpfully provides some of the guideposts.
An example is Marxism, which explains the communist as the inevitable historical synthesis of the proletariat and capitalist of modern capitalist class division.
It processes archaeological sources, and translates them into the language of history, and finally transfers them to the historian for their incorporation into a historical synthesis.
Rogers's historical synthesis is exciting, admirable, and alive; his attempt to make his characters' private lives resonate is clumsy, notional, and dull.
His interest in the emancipation of a class subject, as bringing about an historical synthesis, owes much to Lukács's version of Marxism.
Perhaps her thought-provoking book is the first sign of an emerging historical synthesis.
The historical synthesis reduces itself, then, to uncovering the psychologic processes of national development.
THIS book is a major work of historical synthesis that brings to life the men and machines that gave us the nuclear era.
"A major work of historical synthesis that brings to life the men and machines that gave us the nuclear age."
It explores the roots and ramifications of the normalizing of pathological narcissism in 20th century American culture using psychological, cultural, artistic and historical synthesis.