When I was a child I read books
(2012)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
814.54/ROBINSON,M
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
xvi, 206 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780374298784, 0374298785 (alk. paper)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Freedom of thought -- Imagination and community -- Austerity as ideology -- Open thy hand wide: Moses and the origins of American liberalism -- When I was a child -- The fate of ideas: Moses -- Wondrous love -- The human spirit and the good society -- Who was Oberlin? -- Cosmology
In this new collection of incisive essays, Robinson returns to the themes which have preoccupied her work: the role of faith in modern life, the inadequacy of fact, the contradictions inherent in human nature