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Catalyst for Controversy [electronic resource] : Paul Carus of Open Court
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Henderson, Harold.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Carus, Paul, 1852-1919.
- Open Court Publishing Company--History.
- Periodicals--Publishing--United States--History.
- Philosophers--United States--Biography.
- Publishers and publishing--United States--Biography.
- Publishers and publishing--Illinois--La Salle--History.
- Religious literature--Publishing--United States--History.
- United States--Intellectual life.
- United States.
- Open Court Publishing Company.
- Carus, Paul.
- Local Subjects:
- Carus, Paul, 1852-1919.
- Open Court Publishing Company--History.
- Periodicals--Publishing--United States--History.
- Philosophers--United States--Biography.
- Publishers and publishing--United States--Biography.
- Publishers and publishing--Illinois--La Salle--History.
- Religious literature--Publishing--United States--History.
- United States--Intellectual life.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (217 p.)
- Other Title:
- Paul Carus of Open Court.
- Place of Publication:
- Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2009.
- Summary:
- ""I am not a common atheist; I am an atheist who loves God.""-Paul Carus, ""The God of Science,"" 1904In the summer of 1880, while teaching at the military academy of the Royal Corps of Cadets of Saxony in Dresden, Paul Carus published a brief pamphlet denying the literal truth of scripture and describing the Bible as a great literary work comparable to the Odyssey.This unremarkable document was Carus's first step in a wide-ranging intellectual voyage in which he traversed philosophy, science, religion, mathematics, history, music, literature, and socia
- Contents:
- Cover; Frontispiece; Book Title; Copyright Page; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Paul Carus's Early Life; 2. The Philosophy of Monism and Meliorism; 3. Open Court's First Year; 4. The Religion of Science; 5. The World's Parliament of Religions; Gallery; 6. Looking Toward the East; 7. Mach; 8. Peirce; 9. Carus's Later Philosophy; 10. The Great War; Notes; References; Index; Back Cover
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- OCLC:
- 856870145
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