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

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Hollinger, David A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1999, 1996.
Edición:1st pbk. ed.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.