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Authors: David A. Hollinger
ISBN-13: 9780691001890, ISBN-10: 0691001898
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Date Published: November 1998
Edition: 1st Edition

Author Biography: David A. Hollinger

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"David Hollinger is arguably the leading American intellectual historian working today and perhaps the best historical essayist of his generation. This is a timely collection of his work."--Ronald L. Numbers, University of Wisconsin

	Preface
Ch. 1	Introduction	3
Ch. 2	Jewish Intellectuals and the De-Christianization of American Public Culture in the Twentieth Century	17
Ch. 3	The "Tough-Minded" Justice Holmes,Jewish Intellectuals, and the Making of an American Icon	42
Ch. 4	Two NYUs and "The Obligation of Universities to the Social Order" in the Great Depression	60
Ch. 5	The Defense of Democracy and Robert K. Merton's Formulation of the Scientific Ethos	80
Ch. 6	Free Enterprise and Free Inquiry: The Emergence of Laissez-Faire Communitarianism in the Ideology of Science in the United States	97
Ch. 7	Academic Culture at the University of Michigan, 1938-1988	121
Ch. 8	Science as a Weapon in Kulturkampfe in the United States during and after World War II	155
	Index	175

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Science, Jews, and Secular Culture: Studies in Mid-Twentieth-Century American Intellectual History » (1st Edition)

Author Biography: David A. Hollinger

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