Disenchantment of Secular Discourse

Informationen zum Autor Steven D. Smith is Warren Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of San Diego and Co-Executive Director of the USD Institute for Law and Religion. Klappentext Prominent observers complain that public discourse in America is shallow and unedifying. This condition is often attributed to the resurgence of religion in public life. This title argues that this diagnosis is not primarily religion but rather the strictures of secular rationalism that have drained our modern discourse of force and authenticity. Zusammenfassung Prominent observers complain that public discourse in America is shallow and unedifying. This condition is often attributed to the resurgence of religion in public life. This title argues that this diagnosis is not primarily religion but rather the strictures of secular rationalism that have drained our modern discourse of force and authenticity. Inhaltsverzeichnis * The Way We Talk Now * Living and Dying in the "Course of Nature" * Trafficking in Harm * Disoriented Discourse: The Secular Subversion of Religious Freedom * The Heavenly City of the Secular Philosophers * Science! Humanity! and Atrocity * Opening Up the Cage? * Notes * Acknowledgments * Index

Product details

• Authors: Steven D. Smith, Smith Steven D., Steven D. Smith
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.2010
• EAN: 9780674050877
• ISBN: 978-0-674-05087-7
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, Philosophy, LAW / Right to Die, social and political philosophy, United States of America, USA, Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent action, Political structure and processes