Secularism and its Opponents from Augustine to Solzhenitsyn

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Gebonden, blz. | Engels
Palgrave Macmillan US | e druk, 2006
ISBN13: 9781403976154
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Palgrave Macmillan US e druk, 2006 9781403976154
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In this overview of secularism and its history, Kennedy traces, through a series of intellectual biographies of leading European thinkers such as Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Dostoyevsky, and Solzhenitsyn, just how the Western world changed from religious to secular.

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ISBN13:9781403976154
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:gebonden
Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan US

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION TO PART ONE Saint Augustine, Christianity and the Roman Empire Thomas Aquinas Christian Secularism INTRODUCTION TO PART TWO: THE RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION Dante and Lay Secularism of the High Middle Ages Machiavelli, Religion and Politics Luther's Centrifugal Reformation INTRODUCTION: TO PART THREE: AUTONOMY IN THE ENLIGHTENMENT Locke, Toleration, Infallibility and the Secular State Rousseau, the Secular Hermit Kant's Ambiguous Secularism INTRODUCTION TO PART FOUR: THE UPWARD, DOWNWARD DIALECTIC Hegel: Secular Philosophy Comprehending Theology Marx, 'the Christian State,' 'the Jewish Question' and 'Species Being' INTRODUCTION TO PART FIVE: REACTION AGAINST SECULARISM Dostoyevsky and European Secularism Solzhenitsyn, Communism and the West Conclusion

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        Secularism and its Opponents from Augustine to Solzhenitsyn