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Editor of Religion and Twentieth-Century American Intellectual Life
and The Truman Presidency, Lacey details the emergence of the new
social values that gave rise to the environmental movement and
examines the Federal government's response to the changing ideas
and needs of the American people.
Written by leading authorities in history, philosophy, jurisprudence and political theory, the essays in this volume provide new insights into the variable and changing contents of the rights thinking and consciousness that lie at the core of American political culture and shape its central political institutions. Based on the current state of scholarly understanding and intended to provide a fresh sense of orientation into the complexities of the separate topics covered, the studies focus on two distinct "moments" in the American experience: the eighteenth-century period of founding that produced the Bill of Rights as an element in the Constitutional settlement, and the contemporary moment, marked by a new historical consciousness of the difficulties of interpreting rights in changing contexts and thus by the continuing search for a properly grounded philosophical jurisprudence adequate to meet the ethical, social, and political conflicts of the present.
Written by leading authorities in history, philosophy, jurisprudence and political theory, the essays in this volume provide new insights into the variable and changing contents of the rights thinking and consciousness that lie at the core of American political culture and shape its central political institutions. Based on the current state of scholarly understanding and intended to provide a fresh sense of orientation into the complexities of the separate topics covered, the studies focus on two distinct "moments" in the American experience: the eighteenth-century period of founding that produced the Bill of Rights as an element in the Constitutional settlement, and the contemporary moment, marked by a new historical consciousness of the difficulties of interpreting rights in changing contexts and thus by the continuing search for a properly grounded philosophical jurisprudence adequate to meet the ethical, social, and political conflicts of the present.
Written by leading authorities in the fields of the contemporary
social, political, and diplomatic history of the United States, the
essays in this volume provide a wide-ranging overview of the
intentions, achievements, and failures of the Truman
administration. Divided into sections on domestic politics and
issues, and foreign policy and national defence, the volume gives
an authoritative appraisal of some of the major events and problems
of the time in the light of recent scholarship. The essays make
clear the overriding importance of the wartime experience for the
Truman era.
Concerned primarily with relations between Protestant Christianity and the main currents in secular intellectual life over the course of the past century, the essays in this volume disclose the persistence, complexity, and fragility of religious thought in the new university dominated intellectual environment of the modern period. Arguing that three important patterns of response emerged from the challenges to religious belief posed by nineteenth-century science and scholarship--the traditionalist, the naturalist, and the modernist responses--the volume is organized to bring out the continuing interplay of reciprocal influences among them. The contributors show that a dialectic between naturalistic and religious points of view has contributed significantly to the character and style of modern American thought.
Concerned primarily with relations between Protestant Christianity
and the main currents in secular intellectual life over the course
of the past century, the essays in this volume disclose the
persistence, complexity, and fragility of religious thought in the
new university dominated intellectual environment of the modern
period. Arguing that three important patterns of response emerged
from the challenges to religious belief posed by nineteenth-century
science and scholarship--the traditionalist, the naturalist, and
the modernist responses--the volume is organized to bring out the
continuing interplay of reciprocal influences among them. The
contributors show that a dialectic between naturalistic and
religious points of view has contributed significantly to the
character and style of modern American thought.
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