Science, Jews, and Secular Culture : : Studies in Mid-Twentieth-Century American Intellectual History / / David A. Hollinger.
This remarkable group of essays describes the "culture wars" that consolidated a new, secular ethos in mid-twentieth-century American academia and generated the fresh energies needed for a wide range of scientific and cultural enterprises. Focusing on the decades from the 1930s through the...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021] ©1996 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- CHAPTER ONE Introduction
- CHAPTER TWO Jewish Intellectuals and the De-Christianization of American Public Culture in the Twentieth Century
- CHAPTER THREE The "Tough-Minded" Justice Holmes, Jewish Intellectuals, and the Making of an American Icon
- CHAPTER FOUR Two NYUs and "The Obligation of Universities to the Social Order" in the Great Depression
- CHAPTER FIVE The Defense of Democracy and Robert K. Merton's Formulation of the Scientific Ethos
- CHAPTER SIX Free Enterprise and Free Inquiry: The Emergence of Laissez-Faire Communitarianism in the Ideology of Science in the United States
- CHAPTER SEVEN Academic Culture at the University of Michigan, 1938-1988
- CHAPTER EIGHT Science as a Weapon in Kulturkampfe in the United States during and after World War II
- Index