The death of character : moral education in an age without good or evil / James Davison Hunter.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Basic Books, ©2000Edition: 1st edDescription: xv, 320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN: 0465047300; 9780465047307; 0465031773; 9780465031771Subject(s): Moral education -- United States | Character | Education -- Social aspects -- United StatesAdditional physical formats: Online version:: Death of character.; Online version:: Death of character.LOC classification: LC311 | .H86 2000Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Martha's Vineyard High School Library | 370.114/HUN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 39844300057888 |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-308) and index.
Postmortem -- Moral lives of children and the moral life of the nation -- Character and culture -- Early modern regime and its transformation -- Progressive turn in moral education -- Excursus: the crisis of character that isn't -- Psychological regime -- Neoclassical and communitarian backlash -- Ambivalence within faith communities -- Parting observations: moral education and the triumph of the therapeutic -- Impotence of contemporary moral education -- Excursus: moral cultures and their consequences -- Lessons in subjectivism -- Leading children beyond good and evil -- Death of character -- Postscript: democracy and moral education.
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