Figures in the Carpet: Finding the Human Person in the American PastWilfred M. McClay Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 02/01/2007 - 506 من الصفحات What does it mean to be a human person? This volume is a historical inquiry into that foundational, deceptively simple question. Viewing the human person from various perspectives -- law, education, business, media, religion, medicine, community life, gender, art -- sixteen historians of American life explore how our understanding of personhood has changed over time and how that changing understanding has significantly affected our ideas about morality and human rights, our conversations about public policy, and our American culture as a whole. |
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A Neglected Explanatory Category | 15 |
Neglected Resources from | 33 |
Framing the Self in Early New England | 71 |
The Sympathetic Self in American Culture 17501920 | 129 |
Gender and Religion | 162 |
Social Selfhood Corporate Humanism | 185 |
The Virtual Self and the Socialization Crisis | 232 |
A Personal Response | 265 |
Ivan Illichs Critique of Modern Medicine | 318 |
Christopher Laschs Journey | 347 |
Religion and Education in the Young Republic | 373 |
A Historical and Theological Problem | 405 |
And What It Tells Us about | 428 |
Changing Perceptions of Marriage | 446 |
What Kind of People Are We? The United States | 468 |
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