"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 damaged personal relationships.
"The Culture of Cynicism" not only lays bare the internal
contradictions of American morality, but also charts the new forms
it has assumed. It demonstrates compellingly that neither liberal
nor conservative commentators on America's moral decline have
grasped what is really the case: that American morality itself is
the source of this decline. What we need is not a "return" to
higher moral standards, but a complete revision of America's
foundational ethics.
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