Science, Jews, and Secular Culture: Studies in Mid-Twentieth-Century American Intellectual History

by David A. Hollinger

Book Overview

This remarkable group of essays describes the "culture wars" that consolidated a new, secular ethos in mid-twentieth-century American academia and generated the fresh energies needed for a wide range of scientific and cultural enterprises. Focusing on the decades from the 1930s through the 1960s, David Hollinger discusses the scientists, social scientists, philosophers, and historians who fought the Christian biases that had kept Jews from fully...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691001898
• ISBN13: 9780691001890
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.2"