Catalyst for Controversy [[electronic resource] ] : Paul Carus of Open Court
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| Autore: |
Henderson Harold
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| Titolo: |
Catalyst for Controversy [[electronic resource] ] : Paul Carus of Open Court
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| Pubblicazione: | Carbondale, : Southern Illinois University Press, 2009 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (217 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 381.450020973 |
| 381/.45002/0973 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Carus, Paul, 1852-1919 |
| Open Court Publishing Company -- History | |
| Periodicals -- Publishing -- United States -- History | |
| Philosophers -- United States -- Biography | |
| Publishers and publishing -- United States -- Biography | |
| Publishers and publishing --Illinois --La Salle -- History | |
| Religious literature -- Publishing -- United States -- History | |
| United States -- Intellectual life | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Frontispiece; Book Title; Copyright Page; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Paul Carus's Early Life; 2. The Philosophy of Monism and Meliorism; 3. Open Court's First Year; 4. The Religion of Science; 5. The World's Parliament of Religions; Gallery; 6. Looking Toward the East; 7. Mach; 8. Peirce; 9. Carus's Later Philosophy; 10. The Great War; Notes; References; Index; Back Cover |
| Sommario/riassunto: | ""I am not a common atheist; I am an atheist who loves God.""-Paul Carus, ""The God of Science,"" 1904In the summer of 1880, while teaching at the military academy of the Royal Corps of Cadets of Saxony in Dresden, Paul Carus published a brief pamphlet denying the literal truth of scripture and describing the Bible as a great literary work comparable to the Odyssey.This unremarkable document was Carus's first step in a wide-ranging intellectual voyage in which he traversed philosophy, science, religion, mathematics, history, music, literature, and socia |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Catalyst for Controversy |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910462890303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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