The Eclipse of Morality: Science, State, and Market (Sociological Imagination & Structural Change Series) - Softcover

Busch, Lawrence

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0202306224 ISBN 13: 9780202306223

Publisher: Aldine Transaction, 2000

Synopsis

Using the works of Bacon, Hobbes, and Adam Smith as well as historical examples drawn from the last two centuries, Busch shows how the ideas initially proposed by these thinkers became reified as scientism, statism, and marketism - systems of belief that a single mode of ordering could solve the riddle of society, and thereby supplant moral responsibility.Busch contrasts this approach with concrete examples of successful attempts to extend democracy into these areas - to create multiple orderings - so that moral responsibility is neither crushingly heavy on individuals nor unbearably light on society.

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"This book examines problems of modern social order and morality in three institutional spheres: science, the state, and the market. It traces the evolution of ideas in these spheres by focusing on the works of Bacon, Hobbes, and Smith, as well as some of their intellectual heirs."

--Paul S. Gray, Contemporary Sociology

"This book examines problems of modern social order and morality in three institutional spheres: science, the state, and the market. It traces the evolution of ideas in these spheres by focusing on the works of Bacon, Hobbes, and Smith, as well as some of their intellectual heirs."

--Paul S. Gray, Contemporary Sociology

-This book examines problems of modern social order and morality in three institutional spheres: science, the state, and the market. It traces the evolution of ideas in these spheres by focusing on the works of Bacon, Hobbes, and Smith, as well as some of their intellectual heirs.-

--Paul S. Gray, Contemporary Sociology

Edition details

• Publisher: Aldine Transaction
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0202306224
• ISBN 13: 9780202306223
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 219