Description: Further DetailsTitle: Words, Works, and Ways of KnowingCondition: NewEAN: 9780226337746ISBN: 9780226337746Publisher: University of Chicago PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 06/14/2016Author: Sara ParetskyLanguage: EnglishDescription: Crime writer Sara Paretsky is known the world over for her acclaimed series of mysteries starring Chicago private investigator V. I. Warshawski, now in its seventeenth installment. Paretsky’s work has long been inflected with history—for her characters the past looms large in the present—and in her decades-long career, she has been recognized for transforming the role of women in contemporary crime fiction. What’s less well-known is that before Paretsky began her writing career, she earned a PhD in history from the University of Chicago with a dissertation on moral philosophy and religion in New England in the early and mid-nineteenth century. Now, for the first time, fans of Paretsky can read that earliest work, Words, Works, and Ways of Knowing. Paretsky here analyzes attempts by theologians at Andover Seminary, near Boston, to square and secure Calvinist religious beliefs with emerging knowledge from history and the sciences. She carefully shows how the open-minded scholasticism of these theologians paradoxically led to the weakening of their intellectual credibility as conventional religious belief structures became discredited, and how this failure then incited reactionary forces within Calvinism. That conflict between science and religion in the American past is of interest on its face, but it also sheds light on contemporary intellectual battles. Rounding out the book, leading religious scholar Amanda Porterfield provides an afterword discussing where Paretsky’s work fits into the contemporary study of religion. And in a sobering—sometimes shocking—preface, Paretsky paints a picture of what it was like to be a female graduate student at the University of Chicago in the 1970s. A treat for Paretsky’s many fans, this book offers a glimpse of the development of the mind behind the mysteries.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: HistoryTopic: Philosophy & SpiritualitySubtitle: The Breakdown of Moral Philosophy in New England before the Civil WarItem Height: 24mmItem Length: 16mmItem Width: 2mmItem Weight: 425gRelease Year: 2016 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
Price: 55.65 USD
Location: GU14 0GT
End Time: 2024-11-20T15:04:56.000Z
Shipping Cost: 0 USD
Product Images
Item Specifics
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money back or replacement (buyer's choice)
Return policy details:
Book Title: Words, Works, and Ways of Knowing
Title: Words, Works, and Ways of Knowing
EAN: 9780226337746
ISBN: 9780226337746
Release Date: 06/14/2016
Release Year: 2016
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: History
Topic: Philosophy & Spirituality
Subtitle: The Breakdown of Moral Philosophy in New England before the Civil
Number of Pages: 176 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Words, Works, and Ways of Knowing : The Breakdown of Moral Philosophy in New England Before the Civil War
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Item Height: 1 in
Publication Year: 2016
Subject: Christianity / History, United States / 19th Century, Ethics & Moral Philosophy, United States / State & Local / New England (Ct, mA, Me, NH, Ri, VT), General
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 14.1 Oz
Subject Area: Religion, Philosophy, Education, History
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Sara Paretsky
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
