Science, Jews, and Secular Culture
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Ethos
Exclusion
Felix Frankfurter
Free Inquiry
Graduate school
Henry Steele Commager
Historiography of science
Ideal type
Ideology
Institution
Intellectual
Intellectual history
Intelligentsia
Jews
John Dewey
Judaism
Laissez-faire
Lecture
Lionel Trilling
Literature
Manifesto
Michel Foucault
Modernity
Multiculturalism
National Science Foundation
Nativism (politics)
Nazism
New York University
Obligation
Philosopher
Philosophy
Philosophy of science
Political science
Politics
Postmodernism
Prejudice
Profession
Protestantism
Public sphere
Religion
Robert K. Merton
Science
Science and technology in the United States
Science studies
Scientific community
Scientific enterprise
Scientist
Secularism
Sensibility
Social order
Social science
Society of the United States
Sociology
The New York Times
Thomas Kuhn
Totalitarianism
Walter Lippmann
World War II
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- ISBN 9780691001890
- Weight: 255g
- Dimensions: 197 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 20 Dec 1998
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 participating in American intellectual life. Today social critics take for granted the comparatively open outlook developed by these men (and men they were, mostly), and charge that their cosmopolitanism was not sufficiently multicultural. Yet Hollinger shows that the liberal cosmopolitans of the mid-century generation defined themselves against the realities of their own time: McCarthyism, Nazi and Communist doctrines, a legacy of anti-Semitic quotas, and both Protestant and Catholic versions of the notion of a "Christian America." The victory of liberal cosmopolitans was so sweeping by the 1960s that it has become easy to forget the strength of the enemies they fought.
Most books addressing the emergence of Jewish intellectuals celebrate an illustrious cohort of literary figures based in New York City. But the pieces collected here explore the long-postponed acceptance of Jewish immigrants in a variety of settings, especially the social science and humanities faculties of major universities scattered across the country. Hollinger acknowledges the limited, rather parochial sense of "mankind" that informed some mid-century thinking, but he also inspires in the reader an appreciation for the integrationist aspirations of a society truly striving toward equality. His cast of characters includes Vannevar Bush, James B. Conant, Richard Hofstadter, Robert K. Merton, Lionel Trilling, and J. Robert Oppenheimer.
David A. Hollinger is Chancellor's Distinguished Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. His previous books are Postethnic America: Beyond Multiculturalism, In the American Province: Studies in the History and Historiography of Ideas, and Morris R. Cohen and the Scientific Ideal.
