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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 170.42 EAN: 9780878559077 ISBN: 0878559078 Label: Transaction Publishers Manufacturer: Transaction Publishers Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 348 Publication Date: January 01, 1982 Publisher: Transaction Publishers Studio: Transaction Publishers Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: 1929. Lippman, a Pulitzer Prize winning political columnist, helped found the liberal New Republic magazine. His writings there influenced Woodrow Wilson, who selected Lippman to help formulate his famous Fourteen Points and develop the concept of the League of Nations. A Preface to Morals endorses liberal democracy. Partial Contents: Part I The Dissolution of the Ancestral Order; Part II The Foundations of Humanism; and Part III The Genius of Modernity. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Absolutely boringThis book is about the clash between modernism as reflected in early 20th century American culture, and traditional religious thought. The author, Rating:  - Masterful diagnosisLippmann describes the "crisis of faith" that is produced by the "acid of modernity" better than anybody I've read. It's not that educated people don't want to believe in traditional religion, it's that they are no longer able to. The background assumptions of Western civilization have simply been altered too much by new forms of political organization and advances in science. This would not create a crisis if people no longer had the needs that religion has traditionally filled, like the need to ... Read More Rating: - How the modern world undercuts religionYou will not find a more succinct discussion of how the modern world renders true religious belief almost impossible. Although this book was written in the 1920s, it reads as if it were written yesterday. Lippman dissects modernism and explains in detail how it actively and passively undermines religious faith, the faith of our fathers. This learned treatise on the corrosive effect of modernity is a must for every library. 
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