The Flight from Authority: Religion, Morality, and the Quest for Autonomy

by Jeffrey L. Stout

Book Overview

Jeffrey Stout argues that modern thought was born in a crisis of authority, took shape in flight from authority, and aspired to autonomy from all traditional influence. The quest for autonomy was an attempt to begin completely anew. As such it was bound to fail.

Stout traces the secularization of public discourse and its effect on the relation between theism and culture as well as the severance of morality from traditional moorings in favor...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0268009716
• ISBN13: 9780268009717
• Release Date: July 1981
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"