| Authors: |
Robinson, Marilynne.
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| Material type: |
Book |
| Subject: |
United States -- Civilization -- Philosophy.
Theology -- United States.
Calvinism -- United States.
Political science -- United States -- Philosophy.
Philosophy, American.
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| Language: |
English |
| Publisher: |
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012. |
| Description: |
xvi, 206 p. ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780374298784 0374298785 |
| Notes: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-206). |
| Contents: |
Freedom of thought -- Imagination and community -- Austerity as ideology -- Open thy hand wide : Moses and the origins of American liberalism -- When I was a child -- The fate of ideas : Moses -- Wondrous love -- The human spirit and the good society -- Who was Oberlin? -- Cosmology. |
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| Summary: |
In this new collection of incisive essays, Robinson returns to the themes which have preoccupied her work: the role of faith in modern life, the inadequacy of fact, the contradictions inherent in human nature. |