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When I was a child I read books

By Robinson , Marilynne

Book information

Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux;Picador
Year
2013
ISBN
978-0-374-70941-9, 0374709416
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
209 kB (214317 bytes)
Pages
206\0
Time added
2017-08-15 11:00:00
American.;United States -- Civilization -- PhilosoTheology -- United States.;Calvinism -- United Sta

Description

In this new collection of incisive essays, Robinson returns to the themes which have preoccupied her work: the role of faith in modern life, the inadequacy of fact, the contradictions inherent in human nature. Abstract: In this new collection of incisive essays, Robinson returns to the themes which have preoccupied her work: the role of faith in modern life, the inadequacy of fact, the contradictions inherent in human nature Content: Freedom of thought -- Imagination and community -- Austerity as ideology -- Open thy hand wide : Moses and the origins of American liberalism -- When I was a child -- The fate of ideas : Moses -- Wondrous love -- The human spirit and the good society -- Who was Oberlin? -- Cosmology.

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