Democracy’s Discontent: America in Search of a Public PhilosophyThe defect, Sandel maintains, lies in the impoverished vision of citizenship and community shared by Democrats and Republicans alike. American politics has lost its civic voice, leaving both liberals and conservatives unable to inspire the sense of community and civic engagement that self-government requires. |
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... anxiety of the age . It is an anxiety that the prevailing political agenda has failed to answer or even address . Why is American politics ill equipped to allay the discontent. The Public Philosophy of Contemporary Liberalism.
... address the sense of disem- powerment that afflicts our public life . The public philosophy by which we live cannot secure the liberty it promises , because it cannot inspire the sense of community and civic engagement that liberty ...
... address the evil of sweatshops and to consider that women's " bargaining power is relatively weak , and that they are the ready victims of those who would take advantage of their necessitous circumstances . " 60 Given its hostility to ...
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Contents
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Religious Liberty and Freedom of Speech | 55 |
Privacy Rights and Family Law | 91 |
Economics and Virtue in the Early Republic | 123 |
Free Labor versus Wage Labor | 168 |
Community SelfGovernment and Progressive Reform | 201 |
Liberalism and the Keynesian Revolution | 250 |
The Triumph and Travail of the Procedural Republic | 274 |
Other editions - View all
Democracy’s Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy Michael J. Sandel Limited preview - 1998 |
Liberalism and Its Critics: America in Search of a Public Philosophy Michael J. Sandel No preview available - 1998 |
Democracy's Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy Michael J. Sandel No preview available - 1996 |