When I was a child I read books

✍ Scribed by Robinson, Marilynne

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux;Picador
Year: 2013
Tongue: English
Leaves: 206
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

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

✦ Table of Contents

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.

✦ Subjects

Theology -- United States.;Calvinism -- United States.;Political science -- United States -- Philosophy.;Philosophy, American.;United States -- Civilization -- Philosophy.;LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Essays.;Calvinism.;Civilization -- Philosophy.;Political science -- Philosophy.;Theology.;United States.

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