num_pages: 253
description: V/G to LIKE NEW DJ, LIKE NEW BOOK.FIRST EDITION(dated title page) 1998 Spence hardcover, Robert H. Knight. The vise-grip of moral relativism on American popular culture was not suddenly achieved in the 1960s. An incisive new book of unequaled historical scope studies this alluring but poisonous philosophy's hundred-year conquest of the institutions that shape the popular art, music, architecture, film, and, of course, television. Knight begins with a reminder of the imperfect but healthy society we inhabited before the ideology of self-gratification released the host of social pathologies from which we now suffer. He then guides the reader on a historical tour of the organs of modern popular culture, documenting the nearly unhindered march of relativism-led by a vanguard of decadent lites-through television, Hollywood, art, music, and architecture. This sustained assault on objective truth has brought us to the "Age of Consent," a morally obtuse world in which any act is validated by the mere consent of those immediately involved. Yet the Age of Consent's denial of truth, Knight argues, is unsustainable, and he concludes with a survey of the signs of incipient reaction that give hope for the future. - Amazon
language: English
title: The Age of Consent: The Rise of Relativism and the Corruption of Popular Culture
titlecomplete: The Age of Consent: The Rise of Relativism and the Corruption of Popular Culture
ratings_count: 19
publisher: UNKNO