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The Demoralization of Western Culture Ralph Fevre

The Demoralization of Western Culture By Ralph Fevre

The Demoralization of Western Culture by Ralph Fevre


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The author discusses values and morality, drawing on information about art, sex, work, religion, nationalism, politics, the environment and advertising to see why common sense reasoning has proved so persuasuve and more powerful than alternative modes of thinking.

The Demoralization of Western Culture Summary

The Demoralization of Western Culture: Social Theory and the Dilemmas of Modern Living by Ralph Fevre

This is a robust, rigorous and entertaining contribution to the widespread debate about values in particular those values according to which we conduct our private lives. Fevre argues that many of us in the Western world feel genuine confusion about our morality; we are more unsure about where right and wrong might lie than at any previous point in our history. He contends that the most important cause of our difficulties lie in the popularity of a particular sort of reasoning: common sense - which came to dominate our thinking during the 20th century. Drawing on information about art, sex, work, religion, nationalism, politics, the environment and advertising, he looks at why this sort of reasoning has proved so persuasive and so much more powerful than alternative modes of thinking offered by those who want to resist it.

Table of Contents

Lost horizons; utopias; resistance to reason; Bill Clinton and the opinion polls; feelings and sensations; love and sex amongst heterosexuals; is everything relative?; the ice cream headache; Apollo at Delphi; remoralizing the millennium; spirits of the hive.

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The Demoralization of Western Culture: Social Theory and the Dilemmas of Modern Living by Ralph Fevre
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
20030901
288
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