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| Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
| ISBN 13 | 9781557865335 |
| ISBN 10 | 1557865337 |
| Book Subtitle | American Morality In Decline |
| Book Description | The Culture of Cynicism is the most wide-ranging and thought-provoking book yet written on American morality. It traces the intellectual history of American morality from its European origins in the Middle Ages to the 1990s. American culture, Professor Stivers argues, is a culture of cynicism. The pursuit of the mystical values of success, survival, happiness, and health has produced a corrosive and pervasive morality which is actually an 'anti-morality'. The result is a world in which there are norms without meaning, and everyday life is reduced to an empty struggle for power and satisfaction. This leads to boredom, unhappiness, anxiety, depression, addiction, susceptibility to religious cults, bizarre psychotherapies, widespread divorce, and da |
| Language | English |
| Author | Richard Stivers |
| Publication Date | 10-Mar-14 |
| Number of Pages | 224 |
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