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The Disunity of American Culture - Science, Religion, Technology and the Secular State (Paperback)
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The Disunity of American Culture - Science, Religion, Technology and the Secular State (Paperback)
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The Disunity of American Culture describes culture now, when
different forces are influencing it than in the past, altering it
to near incomprehensibility. Identity issues have an effect on
culture and politics; more influential is the question of what
support the state is obligated to provide the individual. John C.
Caiazza seeks to explain how this situation came to be. He begins
with an explanation of the origins of Protestantism in America.
Caiazza describes how the American religion has declined and the
recent responses the decline has provoked. Caiazza follows with an
analysis of science as it presently exists in American culture. The
work of three scientists prominent in their respective fields
Steven Weinberg in physics, E. O. Wilson in biology, and Stanley
Milgram in psychology are examined with respect to how their work
has influenced culture. The author examines the failure of
America's school of philosophy, pragmatism, to explain the
relationship between religion, science, and general culture, even
though its founders, Charles S. Peirce and William James, made
serious efforts to do so. He concludes by making the case that
there is a contradiction between scientific reason and the claim of
state power. Caiazza argues that cultural disharmony will guarantee
that the secular state never achieves the dominance over culture
and political life it desires.
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