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Secularism and its Opponents from Augustine to Solzhenitsyn
Emmet Kennedy
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Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBL; HPC; HRAM2; HRAX; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
278
Condition
New
Number of Pages
278
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349536818
SKU
V9781349536818
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About Emmet Kennedy
ROBERT E. KENNEDY Emmet Kennedy is professor of European history at the George Washington University, USA, and author of several books including A Philosophe in the Age of Revolution: Destutt de Tracy and the Origins of "Ideology" (American Philosophical Society 1978) and A Cultural History of the French Revolution (Yale U.P., 1989).
Reviews for Secularism and its Opponents from Augustine to Solzhenitsyn
"This book gives an overview of the evolution of secularist ideas and the tug of war between the religious and political realm in western thinking. The debate concerning the role of religion in society is as fierce as ever, and, therefore, the ideas and debates presented here clearly feed into contemporary debates and thinking on religion, politics and modernity." - ... Read more