Soul, Self, and Society: The New Morality and the Modern State
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| Rating | : | 4.10 (919 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0199348650 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 504 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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A brilliant book that is stunning in its originality. Professor Rubin powerfully describes a shift in this country from a moral system of 'higher purposes' to an emerging one of 'self-fulfillment.' He links this to a major change in how government operates in the United States and to almost every major social issue. This is a tremendously important work about the nature of American government and American society. ---Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean, University of California Irvine School of Law
Five Stars SusanRA Orginal and wide-ranging with a fascinating historical sweep.. Highly comprehensible, Rubin's book provides an insightful and interesting Sara E Harrell Highly comprehensible, Rubin's book provides an insightful and interesting examination of the history of the relationship between governance and morality and how morality continues to shape governance. What I find to be the most significant element is his focus on the shift from old morality to new morality in governance: old morality, that of higher purposes, vs. new morality, that of self-fulfillment. Essentially, laws that inhibit the social rights of others, according to Rubin, are of the ol. A classic book about changes in personal identity I just finished Rubin's Soul, Self, and Society. Although on a quite different topic, it reminds me of Steven Pinker's block buster, The Better Angels of our Nature: Why Violence has Declined. Both books are highly satisfying because their authors have been able to stand back and take a broad historical view of their topic, and tell us something new and really important: that we are not like our ancestors. Rubin shows how civilization has changed, that people's personalities have changed over th
A sweeping, big-idea book in the vein of Francis Fukuyama's The End of History, Charles Taylor's The Secular Age, and Richard Sennett's The Fall of Public Man, Edward Rubin's new volume promises to reshape our understanding of morality, its relationship to government, and its role in shaping the emerging world of High Modernity.. When state power began to revive in the High Middle Ages through the efforts of the European monarchies, and Christianity became more institutionally effective and more sp