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The Disenchantment of Secular Discourse

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 | #96537 in Books |  Harvard University Press |  2010-06-01 |  2010-05-10 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.64 x.97 x5.54l,1.08 | File type: PDF | 304 pages

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||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| This book opens eyes|By Charles A. Clough|This is a rich resource on exposing modern secular discussion's reluctance to openly mention the worldviews it surreptitiously uses. Steven Smith does a masterful job of documenting how especially the academy and the legal community studiously avoid acknowledging the classical ethical sources of Western civilization even while using ill| |This book presses us to look harder at closely held beliefs and to question deeply rooted premises and commitments with which we are perhaps too comfortable. (Richard W. Garnett, Notre Dame Law School)

Smith's book is insightful, provocative,

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 appeal...

You easily download any file type for your device.The Disenchantment of Secular Discourse   |  Steven D. Smith. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.

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