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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Lamont, Corliss, 1902-1995. Independent mind. New York, Horizon Press, 1951 (OCoLC)609082333 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Corliss Lamont |
| OCLC Number: | 185347 |
| Description: | 187 p. 21 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. Civil liberties and politics: The independent mind -- Back to the Bill of Rights -- The crisis in civil liberties -- A program for progressives -- The motivations of dissenters -- 2. The philosophy of humanism: The humanist way of life -- A humanist cosmology or metaphysics -- Equivocation on religious issues -- Humanizing religious experience -- Three humanist readings -- The appreciation of nature -- The Palisades of the Hudson -- A humanist view of marriage -- A summing up of humanism -- 3. International relations: Wars are not inevitable -- Common sense and Soviet Russia -- The myth of a national emergency -- The myth of Soviet aggression -- The myth of "the free world" -- What would a third world war achieve? -- 4. Impressions of mid-century Europe: Britain's Labor government -- The delights of England -- Scotland and Brittany -- French neutrality -- Geneva and Grindelwald -- Pilgrimage to Rome -- 5. The comedy of life: Crank letters -- Columnists -- Philosophy -- Lecturing -- Mistaken identity -- The Battle of Squibnocket Beach. |
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