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The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought Paperback - 2000
by Marilynne Robinson
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In the tradition of nineteenth-century novelists who turned to the essay, Marilynne Robinson offers a beautiful and authoritative approach to refining the ideas our culture has handed down to us. Whether considering how the McGuffey readers were inspired by midwestern abolitionists; how creationism, "long owned by the Religious Right," has spurred on contemporary Darwinism; or how John Calvin, who was a Frenchman in Geneva, points to America's continental origins, Robinson writes with great conviction. Her essays are filled with the excitement of discovery. "Who can imagine how the things we call ideas live in the world," she writes, "or how they change, or how they perish, or how they can be renewed." In these ten essays, Marilynne Robinson brilliantly addresses subjects that have become the territory of specialists - religion, history, the state of society. The writing is "contrarian in method and spirit," as she states in her introduction, but "Who can imagine how the things we call ideas live in the world, or how they change, or how they perish, or how they can be renewed?" In the tradition of nineteenth-century novelists who turned to the essay, Marilynne Robinson offers a beautiful and authoritative approach to refining the ideas our culture has handed down to us. Whether considering how the McGuffey readers were inspired by Midwestern abolitionists; how Creationism, "long owned by the Religious Right," has spurred on contemporary Darwinism; or how John Calvin, who was a Frenchman in Geneva, points to America's continental origins, Robinson writes meticulously and with great conviction. Her essays are filled with the excitement of discovery.
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- Title The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought
- Author Marilynne Robinson
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st Mariner Book
- Pages 256
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Mariner Books, Boston, MA
- Date January 14, 2000
- ISBN 9780618002061 / 0618002065
- Weight 0.59 lbs (0.27 kg)
- Dimensions 8.18 x 5.49 x 0.65 in (20.78 x 13.94 x 1.65 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98018021
- Dewey Decimal Code 973.92
Excerpt
"These essays were written for various uses and occasions over a number of years. They have characteristic preoccupations -- religion, history, the state of contemporary society -- and they are, all of them, contrarian in method and spirit. They assert, in one way or another, that the prevailing view of things can be assumed to be wrong, and that its opposite, being its image or shadow, can also be assumed to be wrong. They undertake to demonstrate that there are other ways of thinking, for which better arguments can be made." -- from the Introduction
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"This is a grand, sweeping, blazing, brilliant, life-changing book. One turns the last page shaken, but also believing that if a voice such as Robinson's can be raised in our time, then a new reformation might be on its way. It is the most important book on religion and culture for America's self-understanding since Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, a book which, not incidentally, Robinson demolishes." -- Robert D. Richardson, Jr., author of EMERSON: THE MIND ON FIRE
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