A twentieth-century collision : American intellectual culture and Pope John Paul II's idea of a university / Peter M. Collins.
A Twentieth-Century Collision explores intellectual culture in the United States during the twentieth century, a topic which cannot be understood without attention to the gradual narrowing of the scope of (academic) philosophy and its diminishing influence. This "narrowing" signifies a gro...
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| Other title: | 20th century collision. |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Lanham, Md. :
University Press of America,
2010.
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| Summary: | A Twentieth-Century Collision explores intellectual culture in the United States during the twentieth century, a topic which cannot be understood without attention to the gradual narrowing of the scope of (academic) philosophy and its diminishing influence. This "narrowing" signifies a growing indifference to, and elimination of, genuinely metaphysical and prescriptively ethical questions, as well as the bifurcation of faith and reason. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 50 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 45-46) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780761846284 076184628X 9780761846277 0761846271 1282713450 9781282713451 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |