The Universe Is on Our Side: Restoring Faith in American Public Life
Autor Bruce Ledewitzen Limba Engleză Hardback – 5 ian 2022
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780197563939
ISBN-10: 0197563937
Pagini: 228
Dimensiuni: 240 x 165 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 0197563937
Pagini: 228
Dimensiuni: 240 x 165 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Recenzii
The Universe Is on Our Side provides a timely analysis of the most glaring and troubling of current political and cultural trends in the United States. Readers will see resonances not only in the national context but in the nation's constituent institutions, such as higher education or medicine, and will surely find it a provocative and engaging take on one of the most pressing issues of our time.
Bruce Ledewitz, a faculty member at Duquesne and author of the new book The Universe Is on Our Side...[is]...one of the most interesting thinkers in the secular sphere...[and]...sees the deity's death "coming home to roost" in American culture right now in ways more far-reaching and profound—and disruptive—than anything the country has previously seen....Ledewitz...argues—correctly, in my view—that American public life cannot regain its health until we coalesce around a new story to replace the old one about a beneficent reality shaped by a reliable god
Fraught times demand radical inquiry. In "The Universe Is On Our Side," Bruce Ledewitz argues that the cause of the nation's divisions and its entrenched partisan rancor is not primarily ideological, economic or even racial. Rather, he contends, the problem is spiritual - though the solution he proffers is not conventionally religious....Is a public debate about the nature of the universe plausible to hope for? Readers needn't have faith the approach will work to find it a useful angle from which to view our predicament
Ledewitz argues in "The Universe is On Our Side" that we can work toward a trust that the universe bends toward justice and our welfare.
This book argues that the cause of American political breakdown is the death of God. But the answer to the question of the future of American democracy, Ledewitz suggests, is not a return to belief, but the recovery of deep questioning. Although many readers will find something to object to in this book, they will also find themselves questioning the grounds of their objections, and in doing so, returning to the habits of democracy.
Bruce Ledewitz models the kind of inquiry so dearly needed in our time of alienation, disenchantment, and despair. We must ask ultimate questions and discover the hope-inducing answers that are waiting to be found -- which Ledewitz does with great skill and persuasiveness in this valuable book.
I didn't have time to read this book but I couldn't help myself. In Bruce Ledewitz's thoughtful, engaging, admirably balanced diagnosis of our societal disintegration as a manifestation of Nietzsche's "death of God" and in his prescription for a way forward, readers will find much to ponder.
Bruce Ledewitz, a faculty member at Duquesne and author of the new book The Universe Is on Our Side...[is]...one of the most interesting thinkers in the secular sphere...[and]...sees the deity's death "coming home to roost" in American culture right now in ways more far-reaching and profound—and disruptive—than anything the country has previously seen....Ledewitz...argues—correctly, in my view—that American public life cannot regain its health until we coalesce around a new story to replace the old one about a beneficent reality shaped by a reliable god
Fraught times demand radical inquiry. In "The Universe Is On Our Side," Bruce Ledewitz argues that the cause of the nation's divisions and its entrenched partisan rancor is not primarily ideological, economic or even racial. Rather, he contends, the problem is spiritual - though the solution he proffers is not conventionally religious....Is a public debate about the nature of the universe plausible to hope for? Readers needn't have faith the approach will work to find it a useful angle from which to view our predicament
Ledewitz argues in "The Universe is On Our Side" that we can work toward a trust that the universe bends toward justice and our welfare.
This book argues that the cause of American political breakdown is the death of God. But the answer to the question of the future of American democracy, Ledewitz suggests, is not a return to belief, but the recovery of deep questioning. Although many readers will find something to object to in this book, they will also find themselves questioning the grounds of their objections, and in doing so, returning to the habits of democracy.
Bruce Ledewitz models the kind of inquiry so dearly needed in our time of alienation, disenchantment, and despair. We must ask ultimate questions and discover the hope-inducing answers that are waiting to be found -- which Ledewitz does with great skill and persuasiveness in this valuable book.
I didn't have time to read this book but I couldn't help myself. In Bruce Ledewitz's thoughtful, engaging, admirably balanced diagnosis of our societal disintegration as a manifestation of Nietzsche's "death of God" and in his prescription for a way forward, readers will find much to ponder.
Notă biografică
Bruce Ledewitz is Professor of Law and Adrian Van Kaam C.S.Sp. Endowed Chair in Scholarly Excellence at Duquesne Law School, where he specializes in Law and Religion, Jurisprudence and Pennsylvania and federal Constitutional Law. Ledewitz is the author of numerous articles and shorter pieces, as well as three books: American Religious Democracy, Hallowed Secularism, and Church, State, and the Crisis in American Secularism.