Figures in the Carpet: Finding the Human Person in the American Past

Name: Figures in the Carpet: Finding the Human Person in the American Past
Brand: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
SKU: 863119
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ISBN: 9780802863119

Edited By: Wilfred M. McClay

Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. / 2006 / Paperback

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What does it mean to be a human person? This volume is an historical inquiry into that foundational, deceptively simple question. Viewing the human person from various perspectives---law, education, business, media, religion, medicine, community life, gender, art---sixteen historians of American life explore how our understanding of personhood has changed over time and how that changing understanding has significantly affected our ideas about morality and human rights, our conversations about public policy, and our American culture as a whole.

Contributors include:

Margaret Bendroth
Allan Carlson
Thomas R. Cole
Daniel Walker Howe
Richard H. King
Michael J. Lacey
Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn
George M. Marsden
Eugene McCarraher
Wilfred M. McClay
John T. McGreevy
Eric Miller
Sally M. Promey
Charles J. Reid, Jr.
Christine Rosen
Christopher Shannon
Daniel Wickberg

Wilfred M. McClay is SunTrust Bank Chair of Excellence in Humanities and professor of history at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. His many other books include The Masterless: Self and Society in Modern America and Religion Returns to the Public Square: Faith and Policy in Modern America.

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Title: Figures in the Carpet: Finding the Human Person in the American Past
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 512
Vendor: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
Publication Date: 2006

Dimensions: 9.00 X 6.00 (inches)
Weight: 1 pound 10 ounces
ISBN: 0802863116
ISBN-13: 9780802863119
Stock No: WW863119

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What does it mean to be a human person? This volume is a historical inquiry into that foundational, deceptively simple question. Viewing the human person from various perspectives -- law, education, business, media, religion, medicine, community life, gender, art -- sixteen historians of American life explore how our understanding of personhood has changed over time and how that changing understanding has significantly affected our ideas about morality and human rights, our conversations about public policy, and our American culture as a whole.