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

McClay, Wilfred M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802863116 ISBN 13: 9780802863119

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2007

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Synopsis:

This volume is a historical inquiry into the foundational, deceptively simple question - What does it mean to be a human person? 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 American culture as a whole.

About the Author:

Wilfred M McClay is SunTrust Bank Chair of Excellence in Humanities and Professor History at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. He is a Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars, Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Centre and a member of the National Council on the Humanities.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0802863116
• ISBN 13: 9780802863119
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 518