When I Was a Child I Read Books
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: xvi, 206 pages ; 22 cm
In this new collection of incisive essays, Robinson returns to the themes which have preoccupied her work: the role of faith in modern life, the inadequacy of fact, the contradictions inherent in human nature.
Contents:
Freedom of thought -- Imagination and community -- Austerity as ideology -- Open thy hand wide: Moses and the origins of American liberalism -- When I was a child -- The fate of ideas: Moses -- Wondrous love -- The human spirit and the good society -- Who was Oberlin? -- Cosmology.
Subjects:
Thought and thinking.
Calvinism -- United States.
Political science -- United States.
United States -- Social life and customs.
Thought and thinking.
Calvinism -- United States.
Political science -- United States.
United States -- Social life and customs.
ISBN:
9780374298784 (alk. paper)
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
LITERATURE Essays Rob | Northeast Indoors | Nonfiction | In |
LITERATURE Essays Rob | Wheatley (Shandon) | Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references.