In this overview of secularism and its history, Kennedy traces, through a series of intellectual biographies of leading European thinkers such as Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Dostoyevsky, and Solzhenitsyn, just how the Western world changed from religious to secular.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION TO PART ONE Saint Augustine, Christianity and the Roman Empire Thomas Aquinas Christian Secularism INTRODUCTION TO PART TWO: THE RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION Dante and Lay Secularism of the High Middle Ages Machiavelli, Religion and Politics Luther’s Centrifugal Reformation INTRODUCTION: TO PART THREE: AUTONOMY IN THE ENLIGHTENMENT Locke, Toleration, Infallibility and the Secular State Rousseau, the Secular Hermit Kant’s Ambiguous Secularism INTRODUCTION TO PART FOUR: THE UPWARD, DOWNWARD DIALECTIC Hegel: Secular Philosophy Comprehending Theology Marx, 'the Christian State, ’ 'the Jewish Question’ and 'Species Being’ INTRODUCTION TO PART FIVE: REACTION AGAINST SECULARISM Dostoyevsky and European Secularism Solzhenitsyn, Communism and the West ConclusionO autorze
ROBERT E. KENNEDY Emmet Kennedy is professor of European history at the George Washington University, USA, and author of several books includingA Philosophe in the Age of Revolution: Destutt de Tracy and the Origins of 'Ideology’ (American Philosophical Society 1978) and
A Cultural History of the French Revolution (Yale U.P., 1989).
Język Angielski ● Format PDF ● Strony 278 ● ISBN 9780230601680 ● Rozmiar pliku 1.9 MB ● Wydawca Palgrave Macmillan US ● Miasto New York ● Opublikowany 2015 ● Do pobrania 24 miesięcy ● Waluta EUR ● ID 2306659 ● Ochrona przed kopiowaniem Społeczny DRM