Science, Jews, and secular culture : studies in mid-twentieth-century American intellectual history /
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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| Språk: | engelska |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
©1996.
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| Länkar: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv1j666vn |
Innehållsförteckning:
- Introduction
- Jewish intellectuals and the de-Christianization of American public culture in the twentieth century
- The "tough-minded" Justice Holmes, Jewish intellectuals, and the making of an American icon
- Two NYUs and "The obligation of universities to the social order" in the Great Depression
- The defense of democracy and Robert K. Merton's formulation of the scientific ethos
- Free enterprise and free inquiry : the emergence of laissez-faire communitarianism in the ideology of science in the United States
- Academic culture at the University of Michigan, 1938-1988
- Science as a weapon in Kulturkämpfe in the United States during and after World War II.