The Great Agnostic
Subtitle: Robert Ingersoll and American freethought
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New Haven, CT
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780300137255
Description: During the Gilded Age, Ingersoll raised his voice on behalf of Enlightenment reason, secularism, and the separation of church and state with a vigor unmatched since America's revolutionary generation. Jacoby restores Ingersoll to his rightful place in an American intellectual tradition, as public figure who devoted his life to liberty of conscience belonging to the religious and nonreligious alike.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The making of an iconoclast; title: The political insider and the religious outsider; title: Champion of science; title: The humanistic freethinker; title: Church and state; title: Reason and passion; title: Death and afterlife; title: Afterword : A letter to the "new" atheists; title: Appendix A : Vivisection; title: Appendix B : Robert Ingersoll's eulogy for Walt Whitman, March 30, 1892