Soul, Self, and Society: The New Morality and the Modern State

by Edward Rubin

Political and social commentators regularly bemoan the decline of morality in the modern world. They claim that the norms and values that held society together in the past are rapidly eroding, to be replaced by permissiveness and empty hedonism. But as Edward Rubin demonstrates in this powerful account of moral transformations, these prophets of doom are missing the point. Morality is not diminishing; instead, a new morality, centered on an ethos...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199348650
• ISBN13: 9780199348657
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 502 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 7.0" x 9.4"