Prodigal Nation Small Talk in English and Richard L

and Richard L

Being Inclined sheds new light on the history of modern French philosophy and argues for the importance of the neglected nineteenth-century French spiritualist tradition

After laying out Kant's argument that the distinctive kind of knowledge that humans have requires a unified self- consciousness

perpetuate and exacerbate the very divisions they are designed to manage

Prodigal Nation Small Talk in English and Richard L"Original and wide ranging, Murphy's discerning and important study is another reminder that America is 'the nation with the soul of a church.'" Journal of American History "A wide ranging and thoughtful meditation on how the theo political stories we Americans tell ourselves resonate with and sometimes even create the communities we inhabit. This book deserves an honored place among the oeuvre of work by political scientists and historians on the