Secularism and its opponents from Augustine to Solzhenitsyn / / Emmet Kennedy

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910816678403321
• Autore: Kennedy Emmet
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Basingstoke, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006
• ISBN: 1-281-36118-6; 9786611361181; 0-230-60168-5
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2006.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (289 p.)
• Disciplina: 211.609
• Soggetti: Secularism - History; Philosophy
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; One: Introduction; Introduction Part I: Augustine and Aquinas; Introduction Part II: Renaissance and Reformation; Introduction Part III: Autonomy in the Enlightenment; Introduction Part IV: The Dialectic Upward and Downward; Introduction Part V: Reaction against Secularism; Notes; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In this overview of secularism and its history, Kennedy traces, through a series of intellectual biographies of leading European thinkers such as Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Dostoyevsky, and Solzhenitsyn, just how the Western world changed from religious to secular.