{"product_id":"the-culture-of-cynicism-american-morality-in-decline-paperback-softback-9781557865335","title":"The Culture of Cynicism; American Morality in Decline (Paperback \/ softback) 9781557865335","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Culture of Cynicism\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAmerican Morality in Decline\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRichard Stivers (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781557865335, Wiley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 25 June 1994\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e224 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.3 x 1.4 cm, 0.369 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"A bitingly powerful critique of American morality: Stivers's analysis is keen, penetrating, devastating.\" \u003ci\u003eProfessor Andrew M. Greeley, The University of Chicago \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn 1987, Professor Richard Stivers was the recipient of an Earhart Foundation research fellowship to undertake a study of American morality. \u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e The Culture of Cynicism \u003cd\u003e\u003c\/d\u003e is the result. It is not only the most wide-ranging book yet written on the subject, tracing the intellectual history of American morality from its European origins in the Middle Ages to the 1990s, but alos by far the most thought-provoking.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface. \u003cp\u003e1. The Absence of Morality, or Morality Assumes New Forms.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Success Morality: From Economic to Political Ideology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. A Morality of Happiness and Health: Advertising as Liturgy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. From the Moral to the Technical: the Necessary.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. From the Moral to the Normal: the Ephemeral.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. From the Moral to the Visual: the Compensatory.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. A Morality of Power, A Morality Without Meaning.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Against the New Morality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Sociology%20\u0026amp;%20anthropology%20%5BJH%5D%22\"\u003eJH\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52441822134552,"sku":"9781557865335","price":35.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781557865335.jpg?v=1785027683","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-culture-of-cynicism-american-morality-in-decline-paperback-softback-9781557865335","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}