The culture of cynicism : American morality in decline
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The culture of cynicism : American morality in decline
Blackwell, 1994
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [182]-205) and index
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ISBN 9781557865328
内容説明
In 1987, Professor Richard Stivers was the recipient of an Earhart Foundation research fellowship to undertake a study of American morality. This book is the result. It traces the intellectual history of American morality, from its European origins in the Middle Ages to the 1990s. American culture, Professor Stivers argues, is a culture of cynicism. The pursuit of the mystical values of success, survival, happiness and health has produced a corrosive and pervasive morality which is actually an "anti-morality". The result is a world in which there are norms without meaning, and everyday life is reduced to an empty struggle for power and satisfaction. This leads to boredom, unhappiness, anxiety, depression, addiction, susceptibility to religious cults, bizarre psychotherapies, widespread divorce and damaged personal relationships. The book not only examines the internal contradictions of American morality, but also charts the new forms it has assumed. The author demonstrates that neither liberal nor conservative commentators on America's moral decline have grasped what is really the case - that American morality itself is the source of this decline.
What we need, he argues, is not a "return" to higher moral standards, but a complete revision of America's foundational ethics.
目次
- The absence of morality, or morality assumes new forms
- success morality - from economic to political ideology
- a morality of happiness and health - advertising as Liturgy
- from the moral to the technical - the necessary
- from the moral to the normal - the ephemeral
- from the moral to the visual - the compensatory
- a morality of power, a morality without meaning
- against the new morality.
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: pbk ISBN 9781557865335
内容説明
In 1987, Professor Richard Stivers was the recipient of an Earhart Foundation research fellowship to undertake a study of American morality. The Culture of Cynicism is the result. It is not only the most wide-ranging book yet written on the subject, tracing the intellectual history of American morality from its European origins in the Middle Ages to the 1990s, but alos by far the most thought-provoking.
目次
Preface. 1. The Absence of Morality, or Morality Assumes New Forms.
2. Success Morality: From Economic to Political Ideology.
3. A Morality of Happiness and Health: Advertising as Liturgy.
4. From the Moral to the Technical: the Necessary.
5. From the Moral to the Normal: the Ephemeral.
6. From the Moral to the Visual: the Compensatory.
7. A Morality of Power, A Morality Without Meaning.
8. Against the New Morality.
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