The Disunity of American Culture: Science, Religion, Technology and the Secular State

ISBN-13: 9781138515727 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 295 str.

John C. Caiazza

Opis

The Disunity of American Culture describes culture now, when different forces are influencing it than in the past, altering it to near incomprehensibility

Spis treści

Acknowledgments
1.Dissonant Themes in American Culture
Part I:Origin and Decline of the American Religion
2.America, Inventor of Religions
3.How Tufts University Lost Its Religion
4.Three Representative Responses to Decline
Part II:The State of Science and Culture Now
5.The Actual Origins of Modern Science
6.Athens and Jerusalem in the Twenty-First Century
7.The Counterrevolution in the Philosophy of Science
Part III:Science as Cultural Unifier: Three American Scientists
8.Atoms in the Cultural Void: Steven Weinberg's Material Dreams
9.Edward O. Wilson's Grand Unified Theory: God and Man in the Biological Universe
10.Stanley Milgram's Famous Experiments and the Awful Authority of Social Science
Part IV:Decline and Consequences
11.The Cultural Decline of Physical Theory
12.Three Religious Fragments
13.Decline of the American Philosophy: A Tragedy in Three Acts
Part V:Unresolvable Differences
14.The Arrival of Techno-Secularism
15.Sex and the Secular State
16.Inevitable Monotheism: Why God Hasn't Altogether Left the Public Square
17.Cultural Disunity, Toleration, and the Secular State
Index

O autorze

John C. Caiazza