The Disenchantment of Secular Discourse

by Steven D. Smith

Book Overview

Prominent observers complain that public discourse in America is shallow and unedifying. This debased condition is often attributed to, among other things, the resurgence of religion in public life. Steven Smith argues that this diagnosis has the matter backwards: it is not primarily religion but rather the strictures of secular rationalism that have drained our modern discourse of force and authenticity.

Thus, Rawlsian "public reason" filters...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674050878
• ISBN13: 9780674050877
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.6"