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New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012. |
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| Edition: |
1st ed. |
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| ISBN: |
9780374298784 (alk. paper) 0374298785 (alk. paper) |
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| Call number: |
814.54 ROB |
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| Physical description: |
xvi, 206 p. ; 22 cm. |
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| Subject: |
Theology -- United States.
Calvinism -- United States.
Political science -- United States -- Philosophy.
Philosophy, American.
United States -- Civilization -- Philosophy.
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| Note: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-206). |
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| Summary note: |
In this new collection of incisive essays, Robinson returns to the themes which have preoccupied her work: the role of faith in modern life, the inadequacy of fact, the contradictions inherent in human nature. |
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| Contents note: |
Freedom of thought -- Imagination and community -- Austerity as ideology -- Open thy hand wide : Moses and the origins of American liberalism -- When I was a child -- The fate of ideas : Moses -- Wondrous love -- The human spirit and the good society -- Who was Oberlin? -- Cosmology. |
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