Science, Jews, and Secular Culture: Studies in Mid-Twentieth-Century American Intellectual History

by David A. Hollinger

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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 1960s, David Hollinger discusses the scientists, social scientists, philosophers, and historians who fought the Christian biases that had kept Jews from fully...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0691001898

ISBN13:9780691001890

Release Date:November 1998

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:190 Pages

Weight:0.70 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.2"

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20th Century History Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Politics & Social Sciences Social Sciences Specific Demographics World

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