1st Edition
The Disunity of American Culture Science, Religion, Technology and the Secular State
By John C. Caiazza
Copyright 2013
295 Pages
by
Routledge
296 Pages
by
Routledge
295 Pages
by
Routledge
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The Disunity of American Culture describes culture now, when different forces are influencing it than in the past, altering it to near incomprehensibility. Identity issues have an effect on culture and politics; more influential is the question of what support the state is obligated to provide the individual. John C. Caiazza seeks to explain how this situation came to be. He begins with an... Read more
Acknowledgments1.Dissonant Themes in American CulturePart I:Origin and Decline of the American Religion2.America, Inventor of Religions3.How Tufts University Lost Its Religion4.Three Representative Responses to DeclinePart II:The State of Science and Culture Now5.The Actual Origins of Modern Science6.Athens and Jerusalem in the Twenty-First Century7.The Counterrevolution in the Philosophy of SciencePart III:Science as Cultural Unifier: Three American Scientists8.Atoms in the Cultural Void: Steven Weinberg's Material Dreams9.Edward O. Wilson's Grand Unified Theory: God and Man in the Biological Universe10.Stanley Milgram's Famous Experiments and the Awful Authority of Social SciencePart IV:Decline and Consequences11.The Cultural Decline of Physical Theory12.Three Religious Fragments13.Decline of the American Philosophy: A Tragedy in Three ActsPart V:Unresolvable Differences14.The Arrival of Techno-Secularism15.Sex and the Secular State16.Inevitable Monotheism: Why God Hasn't Altogether Left the Public Square17.Cultural Disunity, Toleration, and the Secular StateIndex
Biography
John C. Caiazza
