SENIOR Faculty Fellow 1999-2000
John McGreevy (History)
University of Notre Dame
Thinking On One’s Own:
Catholicism and American Liberalism from Slavery to Abortion
The goal of Thinking on One's Own is simple. It will
provide a concise overview of how Catholic thought has intersected
with American intellectual and cultural life over the past one hundred
and fifty years, on issues ranging from slavery to abortion. This
will entail examining both American anti-Catholicism -- one of the
most under-studied and pervasive phenomena in American life through
much of this period -- as well as the anti-liberal character of
much Catholic thought. The central theme of the project will be
the intermittent tension between an international Catholic intellectual
tradition that stresses community at the expense of autonomy and
an American liberalism increasingly centered on individual rights
and the importance of "thinking on one's own."
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