The Resource Science, Jews, and secular culture : studies in mid-twentieth-century American intellectual history, David A. Hollinger
Science, Jews, and secular culture : studies in mid-twentieth-century American intellectual history, David A. Hollinger
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- Summary
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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 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
- 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
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xi, 178 pages
- Contents
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- 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
- Isbn
- 9780691011431
- Label
- Science, Jews, and secular culture : studies in mid-twentieth-century American intellectual history
- Title
- Science, Jews, and secular culture
- Title remainder
- studies in mid-twentieth-century American intellectual history
- Statement of responsibility
- David A. Hollinger
- Language
- eng
- Summary
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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 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
- 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
- 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
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Hollinger, David A
- Dewey number
- 305.5/52
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- E184.J5
- LC item number
- H646 1996
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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- Jews
- Science
- Secularism
- Science
- United States
- United States
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- Science, Jews, and secular culture : studies in mid-twentieth-century American intellectual history, David A. Hollinger
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- Contents
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- 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
- Control code
- 33131523
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- xi, 178 pages
- Isbn
- 9780691011431
- Isbn Type
- (cloth : alk. paper)
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- 95039843
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- Label
- Science, Jews, and secular culture : studies in mid-twentieth-century American intellectual history, David A. Hollinger
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- volume
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
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- txt
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- Contents
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- 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
- Control code
- 33131523
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- xi, 178 pages
- Isbn
- 9780691011431
- Isbn Type
- (cloth : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 95039843
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