TY  - GEN
T1  - Science, Jews, and secular culture : studies in mid-twentieth-century American intellectual history
A1  - Hollinger, David A.
LA  - English
PP  - Princeton, N.J.
PB  - Princeton University Press
YR  - 1996
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1036859352
AB  - 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 participating in American intellectual life. Today social critics take for granted the comparatively open outlook developed by these men (and men they were, mostly), and charge that their cosmopolitanism was not sufficiently multicultural.
AB  - Yet Hollinger shows that the liberal cosmopolitans of the midcentury generation defined themselves against the realities of their own time: McCarthyism, Nazi and Communist doctrines, a legacy of anti-Semitic quotas, and both Protestant and Catholic versions of the notion of a "Christian America." The victory of liberal cosmopolitans was so sweeping by the 1960s that it has become easy to forget the strength of the enemies they fought.
AB  - Most books addressing the emergence of Jewish intellectuals celebrate an illustrious cohort of literary figures based in New York City. But the pieces collected here explore the long-postponed acceptance of Jewish immigrants in a variety of settings, especially the social science and humanities faculties of major universities scattered across the country. Hollinger acknowledges the limited, rather parochial sense of "mankind" that informed some midcentury thinking, but he also inspires in the reader an appreciation for the integrationist aspirations of a society truly striving toward equality. His cast of characters includes Vannevar Bush, James B. Conant, Richard Hofstadter, Robert K. Merton, Lionel Trilling, and J. Robert Oppenheimer.
OP  - 178
CN  - E184.J5 H646 1996
SN  - 9781400847747
SN  - 1400847745
SN  - 0691011435
SN  - 9780691011431
KW  - Jews : United States : Intellectual life.
KW  - Science : United States : 20th century : History.
KW  - Secularism : United States : History : 20th century.
KW  - United States : Intellectual life : 20th century.
KW  - United States : Ethnic relations.
KW  - Science : United States : History : 20th century.
KW  - Juifs : États-Unis : Vie intellectuelle.
KW  - Sciences : États-Unis : Histoire : 20e siècle.
KW  - Sécularisation : États-Unis : Histoire : 20e siècle.
KW  - États-Unis : Vie intellectuelle : 20e siècle.
KW  - États-Unis : Relations interethniques.
KW  - Sciences : États-Unis : 20e siècle : Histoire.
KW  - HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
KW  - Ethnic relations
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - Jews : Intellectual life
KW  - Science
KW  - Secularism
KW  - United States
KW  - Intellektueller
KW  - USA
KW  - Joden.
KW  - Intellectuelen.
KW  - Juden.
KW  - 1900-1999
KW  - History
ER  -