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The Death of Character: Moral Education in an Age without Good or Evil
By James Davison Hunter
340 pages
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Synopsis
The Death of Character is a broad historical, sociological, and cultural inquiry into the moral life and moral education of young Americans based upon a huge empirical study of the children themselves. The children's thoughts and concerns -- expressed here in their own words -- shed a whole new light on what we can expect from moral education. Targeting new theories of education and the prominence of psychology over moral instruction, Hunter analyzes the making of a new cultural narcissism.Related books and articles at Questia
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Table of contents
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- Title Page iii
- Contents ix
- Acknowledgments xi
- Postmortem xiii
- Part 1 - Introduction 1
- 1 - The Moral Lives of Children and the Moral Life of the Nation 3
- 2 - Character and Culture 15
- Part 2 - The Transformation of Moral Education 29
- 3 - The Early Modern Regime and Its Transformation 31
- 4 - The Progressive Turn in Moral Education 55
- 5 - The Psychological Regime 81
- 6 - The Neoclassical and Communitarian Backlash 107
- 7 - The Ambivalence within Faith Communities 129
- Part 3 - Unintended Consequences 149
- 8 - The Impotence of Contemporary Moral Education 151
- 9 - Lessons in Subjectivism 177
- Title Page iii
- Contents ix
- Acknowledgments xi
- Postmortem xiii
- Part 1 - Introduction 1
- 1 - The Moral Lives of Children and the Moral Life of the Nation 3
- 2 - Character and Culture 15
- Part 2 - The Transformation of Moral Education 29
- 3 - The Early Modern Regime and Its Transformation 31
- 4 - The Progressive Turn in Moral Education 55
- 5 - The Psychological Regime 81
- 6 - The Neoclassical and Communitarian Backlash 107
- 7 - The Ambivalence within Faith Communities 129
- Part 3 - Unintended Consequences 149
- 8 - The Impotence of Contemporary Moral Education 151
- 9 - Lessons in Subjectivism 177
- Part 4 - Moral Education after the Death of God 203
- 10 - Leading Children beyond Good and Evil 205
- Concluding Ironies 220
- II - The Death of Character 221
- Notes 233
- Selected Bibliography 297
- Index 309