1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910457466103321

Autore

Kotzin Daniel P

Titolo

Judah L. Magnes [[electronic resource] ] : an American Jewish nonconformist / / Daniel P. Kotzin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Syracuse, N.Y., : Syracuse University Press, 2010

ISBN

0-8156-5109-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (496 p.)

Collana

Modern Jewish history

Disciplina

320.54095694092

B

Soggetti

Zionists - United States

Rabbis - United States

College presidents - Israel

Zionism - United States

Jewish-Arab relations - History - 1917-1948

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

"A Jewish boy in California" -- The making of an American Jewish dissenter, the making of an American Zionist -- The unconventional rabbi -- The nonconformist American Jewish leader -- The nonconformist American Jewish pacifist -- The Chancellor of the Hebrew University -- The binationalist -- The Zionist conscience.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450412403321

Autore

White Paul <1961->

Titolo

Thomas Huxley : making the "man of science" / / Paul White [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2003

ISBN

1-107-12804-8

1-280-16005-5

9786610160051

1-139-14592-4

0-511-11718-3

0-511-06618-X

0-511-05987-6

0-511-30701-2

0-511-51218-X

0-511-06831-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 205 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge science biographies

Disciplina

570/.92

Soggetti

Evolution (Biology) - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Religion and science - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Literature and science - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Naturalists - Great Britain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-197) and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Science at Home -- Imperial and Sentimental -- A Women's Writing -- Improvement by Domestication -- Pressing Points of Economy -- Conclusion: Fairylands of Science -- 2. Gentlemen of Science? Debates over Manners and Institutions -- The Survey Man -- The British Cuvier -- The "Genius" -- Instituting Biology -- Why Darwin's Bulldog? -- Conclusion: Rag-and-Bone Men -- 3. Science as Culture -- Science Writing and the Periodical Press -- Literature and Liberal Education -- Friends and Enemies of Culture -- Scientific Imagination -- Conclusion: One Culture or Two? -- 4. The Worship of Science -- Holy Man -- A Broad Church -- The Classroom -- Conclusion: Metaphysical Society



behind Closed Doors -- 5. "Darkest England": Science and Labor in the 1880s and 1890s -- "A Copious Shuffler" -- Land, Leadership, and Learning -- Arming for War -- The General's Scheme -- "A Fair and Adequate Trial" -- Conclusion: The Limits of Evolution -- Conclusion: The End of the "Man of Science."

Sommario/riassunto

Dubbed 'Darwin's Bulldog' for his combative role in the Victorian controversies over evolutionary theory, Thomas Huxley has been widely regarded as the epitome of the professional scientist who emerged in the nineteenth century from the restrictions of ecclesiastical authority and aristocratic patronage. Yet from the 1850s until his death in 1895, Huxley always defined himself as a 'man of science', a moral and religious figure, not a scientist. Exploring his relationships with his wife, fellow naturalists, clergymen and men of letters, White presents a new analysis of the authority of science, literature, and religion during the Victorian period, showing how these different practices were woven into a fabric of high culture, and integrated into institutions of print, education and research. He provides a substantially different view of Huxley's role in the evolution debates, and of his relations with his scientific contemporaries, especially Richard Owen and Charles Darwin.