As befits a historian, Carl Trueman has written his impressive book on the ‘sexual revolution’ (SR) as being largely a history of ideas. This history is built of two components. The first element is largely framed in terms of contemporary ideas of the self, which provides for one half of his thesis in the book. Trueman argues convincingly that there is a change in modernity concerning the nature of the human self, pervading at least of all modern Western cultures. Trueman is indebted to three thinkers in particular as he develops this argument: Philip Rieff, Charles Taylor and Alasdair Macintyre.
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