The Twilight of the American Enlightenment

the 1950s and the crisis of liberal belief

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The Twilight of the American Enlightenment

the 1950s and the crisis of liberal belief

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A Bancroft Prize-winning historian traces the origins of America's culture wars back to the intellectual debates of the 1950s, showing how the country's secular elite abdicated its leadership to a radical new generation of Christian thinkers. In the aftermath of World War II, the United States stood at a precipice. The forces of modernity unleashed by the war had led to astonishing advances in daily life, but technology and mass culture also threatened to erode the country's traditional moral character. As award-winning historian George M. Marsden explains in The Twilight of the American Enlightenment, postwar Americans looked to the country's secular, liberal elites for guidance in this precarious time, but these intellectuals proved unable to articulate a coherent common cause by which America could chart its course. Their failure lost them the faith of their constituents, paving the way for a Christian revival that offered America a firm new moral vision -- one rooted in the Protestant values of the founders. A groundbreaking reappraisal of the country's spiritual reawakening, The Twilight of the American Enlightenment shows how America found new purpose at the dawn of the Cold War. - Publisher.

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Basic Books
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English

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Table of Contents

Prologue: The national purpose
Mass media and the national character
Freedom in the lonely crowd
Enlightenment's end?: building without foundations
The problem of authority: the two masters
The latter days of the Protestant establishment
Sequel: consensus becomes a fighting word
Conclusion: Toward a more inclusive pluralism

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Library of Congress
E169.12 .M3647 2014

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Hardcover
Pagination
xxxix, 219 p.
Dimensions
22 x x centimeters

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Open Library
OL25442274M
ISBN 10
0465030106
ISBN 13
9780465030101
LCCN
2013032100
OCLC/WorldCat
861966381

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