The Death of Adam Essays on Modern Thought,9780312425326

The Death of Adam Essays on Modern Thought

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Edition: Reprint
ISBN13: 9780312425326
ISBN10: 0312425325
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2005-11-01
Publisher(s): Picador
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Summary

In this award-winning collection, the bestselling author of Gilead offers us other ways of thinking about history, religion, and society. Whether rescuing Calvinism and its creator Jean Cauvin from the repressive puritan stereotype, or considering how the McGuffey readers were inspired by Midwestern abolitionists, or the divide between the Bible and Darwinism, Marilynne Robinson repeatedly sends her reader back to the primary texts that are central to the development of American culture but little read or acknowledged today. A passionate and provocative celebration of ideas, the old arts of civilization, and lifes mystery, The Death of Adam is, in the words of Robert D. Richardson, Jr., a grand, sweeping, blazing, brilliant, life-changing book.

Author Biography

Marilynne Robinson is the author of the modern classic Housekeeping--winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award--and two books of nonfiction, Mother Country (FSG, 1989) and The Death of Adam. She teaches at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1(27)
Darwinism
28(48)
Facing Reality
76(11)
Family
87(21)
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
108(18)
McGuffey and the Abolitionists
126(24)
Puritans and Prigs
150(24)
Marguerite de Navarre
174(33)
Marguerite de Navarre, Part II
207(20)
Psalm Eight
227(18)
Wilderness
245(10)
The Tyranny of Petty Coercion
255

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