Redemptive Hope : From the Age of Enlightenment to the Age of Obama [1 ed.] 9780823267958, 9780823267910

This is a book about the need for redemptive narratives to ward off despair and the dangers these same narratives create

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Redemptive Hope : From the Age of Enlightenment to the Age of Obama [1 ed.]
9780823267958, 9780823267910

This book brings together secular liberal democratic thought—as found within the work of late neo-pragmatic philosopher

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Continues the account of major philosophical currents in the west from Book 1. Shows the way philosophers reacted to the

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This is the first book to focus on the significance of religion during President Obama’s years in the White House. Addre

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Few bodies of Western music are as widely respected, studied, and emulated as the fugues of Johann Sebastian Bach. Despi

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The rapid growth of the American environmental movement in recent decades obscures the fact that long before the first E

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Northern Europe was, by many accounts, the birthplace of much of modern forestry practice, and for hundreds of years the

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