The disintegrating conscience and the decline of modernity / Steven D. Smith.
| Author/creator | Smith, Steven D., 1952- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2023] |
| Description | ix, 275 pages ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | How did we get here? -- Lost World, New World: Thomas More and his troublesome conscience -- Disestablishment and the New Establishment: James Madison and the Gospel of Conscience -- Conscience and compartmentalization: the disintegration of William Brennan and of America -- Looking backward, looking forward. |
| Abstract | In The disintegrating conscience and the decline of modernity, Smith takes as his starting point Jacques Barzun's provocative assertion that "the modern era" is coming to an end. Smith considers the question of decline by focusing on a single theme--conscience--that has been central to much of what has happened in Western politics, law, and religion of the past half-millennium. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2023937786 |
| ISBN | 0268206910 |
| ISBN | 9780268206918 |