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.
- ISBN10 0202306224
- ISBN13 9780202306223
- Publish Date 15 March 2000
- Publish Status Temporarily Withdrawn
- Out of Print 12 August 2021
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Taylor & Francis Inc
- Imprint AldineTransaction
- Format Paperback
- Pages 219
- Language English