The death of character : moral education in an age without good or evil / James Davison Hunter.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-308) and index.

Postmortem -- Moral lives of children and the moral life of the nation -- Character and culture -- Early modern regime and its transformation -- Progressive turn in moral education -- Excursus: the crisis of character that isn't -- Psychological regime -- Neoclassical and communitarian backlash -- Ambivalence within faith communities -- Parting observations: moral education and the triumph of the therapeutic -- Impotence of contemporary moral education -- Excursus: moral cultures and their consequences -- Lessons in subjectivism -- Leading children beyond good and evil -- Death of character -- Postscript: democracy and moral education.