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050 00 $aHN59.2$b.M36 1995
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100 1 $aMarin, Peter.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n87922856
245 10 $aFreedom & its discontents :$breflections on four decades of American moral experience /$cPeter Marin.
246 3 $aFreedom and its discontents
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aSouth Royalton, Vt. :$bSteerforth Press,$c[1995], ©1995.
300 $axi, 265 pages ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
505 0 $aThe Fiery Vehemence of Youth -- The New Narcissism -- Spiritual Obedience -- Coming to Terms With Vietnam -- Living in Moral Pain -- Helping and Hating the Homeless -- The Prejudice Against Men -- Virginia's Story -- Freedom and Its Discontents.
520 $aFor more than thirty years Peter Marin has been thinking about and writing about the moral life of America. His is a rare voice - a writer of the Left who is also a critic of the Left; a secularist who sees modern secular humanism as a failing movement, nearly bankrupt; a thinker who ventures out into the actual world to engage himself directly in the lives of the people about whom he writes.
520 8 $aMost often these are society's voiceless and ignored, the spiritually wounded, the down-and-out - welfare mothers, war-damaged veterans, the homeless.
520 8 $aHis topics are diverse: the tidal chaos that is adolescence; the foolishness and hedonism of our pop therapies; the unquestioning acceptance of authority that he finds among the followers of a Tibetan Buddhist in Boulder, Colorado; a review of the Vietnam films of Francis Ford Coppola and Michael Cimino which becomes, in Marin's hands, a protracted meditation on the moral pain of the men and women who fought that war.
520 8 $aUnifying all of these essays is his unwavering attention to the moral and ethical meanings that lie behind our actions (or lack of action) and his consistent questioning of how we go about finding the magnanimity we owe to all human life in the face of "our fears of strangeness, our hatred of deviance, our love of order and control."
651 0 $aUnited States$xSocial conditions$y1980-2020.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140524
651 0 $aUnited States$xMoral conditions.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140383
650 0 $aSocial values$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008111575
650 0 $aEthics$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94005887
852 00 $boff,glx$hHN59.2$i.M36 1995