The Woodrow Wilson Center Press
In the Face of the Facts
Robert Whitman Fox and Robert B. Westbrook
In gathering this volume, Fox and Westbrook sought to explore what amounts to a new moral inquiry without moralizing across a wide range of subjects investigated and taught in the modern university.
These chapters were presented and commented on at a 1995 conference sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson Center's Division of Historical, Cultural and Literary Studies, and have been subsequently revised for publication.
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Chapter List
1. Pragmatism, Science, and Moral Inquiry
2. Political Theory and Moral Responsibility
3. Moral Inquiry Within the Bounds of Politics: A Question of Victimhood
4. Moral Confidence: Three Cheers for Naturalized Ethics
5. Fighting (over) Words: Speech, Power, and the Moral Imagination in American History
6. ‘Of the Standard of Moral Taste': Literary Criticism as Moral Inquiry
7. The Moral Force Field of Haitian Vodou
8. Snakes Alive: Resituating the Moral in the Study of Religion
9. Social Science and the Noral Revival: Dilemmas and Difficulties
10. Religion, Morality, and Other Unmentionables: The Revival of Moral Discourse in the Law