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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... belief that the laws enacted to tax and regulate colonial trade denied them their rights as Englishmen and violated the liberty that made the English constitution so worthy of admiration and allegiance ? In order to articulate their ...
... beliefs . And the libertarian strand would issue in the modern liberal's special concern for personal liberties and civil rights . But it was not obvious at first - or , for that matter , later - how these two strands hung together ...
... beliefs expressed in proletarian dictatorship are destined to be accepted by the dominant forces of the community , the only meaning of free speech is that they should be given their chance and have their way . " 69 But this relativist ...
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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 |