{"product_id":"undoing-the-moral-empire-moral-philosophy-in-post-war-britain-hardcover","title":"Undoing the Moral Empire: Moral Philosophy in Post-War Britain - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLesley Chamberlain\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAfter 1945, Britain wanted to be a new country.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eThe authority of state and church were giving way, the Empire was dismantled, and it was no longer clear who was leading whom in matters of morals. Individuals were left to reinvent their ethical lives anew.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe lives and works of the philosophers discussed in this book were caught up this sea-change. Bernard Williams, Philippa Foot, Iris Murdoch, Richard Wollheim, Charles Taylor and Alasdair MacIntyre were all characters in search of a moral England, with a particular vision of the good society. From communitarianism to swinging Sixties' individualism, and radical theories of art - which understood questions of ambiguity, error and forgiveness more than the state ever could - this is the story of their sometimes convergent but often discrepant ideas on ethical life in the second half of the twentieth century.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eUndoing the Moral Empire\u003c\/i\u003e is a work of biography, social history and the history of ideas that masterfully reconstructs the shifting sentiments of the post-war era, reconfiguring enduringly relevant questions of freedom, virtue, and society.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eLesley Chamberlain is a critic, novelist, and historian of ideas whose non-fiction work includes \u003ci\u003eNietzsche in Turin\u003c\/i\u003e (1996), \u003ci\u003eThe Secret Artist: A Close Reading of Sigmund Freud\u003c\/i\u003e (2000), \u003ci\u003eArc of Utopia: The Beautiful Story of the Russian Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e (2017), and \u003ci\u003eRilke: The Last Inward Man \u003c\/i\u003e(2023).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.63 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 11, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45936581673039,"sku":"9781350457737","price":178.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0677\/3083\/3487\/files\/U9wMb9GSoP9781350457737.webp?v=1781873802","url":"https:\/\/lumaryon.com\/products\/undoing-the-moral-empire-moral-philosophy-in-post-war-britain-hardcover","provider":"Lumaryon Universal","version":"1.0","type":"link"}