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The Disintegrating Conscience and the Decline of Modernity / Steven D. Smith.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Steven D., 1953- author.
- Series:
- Catholic ideas for a secular world.
- Catholic Ideas for a Secular World Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Religious pluralism--Political aspects.
- Religious pluralism.
- Freedom of religion.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (287 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame, [2023]
- Summary:
- In The disintegrating conscience and the decline of modernity, Smith takes as his starting point Jacques Barzun's provocative assertion that "the modern era" is coming to an end. Smith considers the question of decline by focusing on a single theme--conscience--that has been central to much of what has happened in Western politics, law, and religion of the past half-millennium.
- Contents:
- How did we get here?
- Lost World, New World: Thomas More and his troublesome conscience
- Disestablishment and the New Establishment: James Madison and the Gospel of Conscience
- Conscience and compartmentalization: the disintegration of William Brennan and of America
- Looking backward, looking forward.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0-268-20690-2
- 0-268-20693-7
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