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Standing for Reason

Hardcover • 2019 • 1. edition

Standing for Reason

By John Sexton

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About the book

A powerful case for the importance of universities as an antidote to the "secular dogmatism" that increasingly infects political discourse John Sexton argues that over six decades, a "secular dogmatism," impenetrable by dialogue or reason, has come to dominate political discourse in America. Political positions, elevated to the status of doctrinal truths, now simply are "revealed." Our leaders and our citizens suffer from an allergy to nuance and complexity, and the enterprise of thought is in d...Show more

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9780300243376

Publisher

Yale University Press

Published year

2019

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1

Original title

Standing for Reason

Format

Hardcover

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