Thesis
In pursuit of salvation: Woodrow Wilson and American liberal internationalism as secularized eschatology
- Abstract:
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This work reinterprets the idea of progress at the heart of Woodrow Wilson’s liberal internationalism through the lens of secularization theory, which holds that modern philosophies of progress stand on religious foundations and represent secularized vestiges of biblical eschatology. Previous applications of this insight reveal a selective pattern: Whereas totalitarian and illiberal narratives of progress such as Nazism and Marxism-Leninism have received lavish attention and spawned extensive...
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Bibliographic Details
- Publication date:
- 2009
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
Item Description
- Language:
- English
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- UUID:
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- Local pid:
- ora:2918
- Deposit date:
- 2009-08-17
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- Copyright holder:
- Babík, M
- Copyright date:
- 2009
- Notes:
- This thesis is not currently available in ORA.
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