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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... . ISBN 0-674-19744-5 ( cloth ) ISBN 0-674-19745-3 ( pbk . ) 1. Democracy - United States . 2. Liberalism - United States . 3. Citizenship - United States . I. Title . JK1726.S325 1996 320.973 - dc20 95-46825 For Kiku.
... Citizenship ix 3 25 55 91 5 Economics and Virtue in the Early Republic 123 6 Free Labor versus Wage Labor 168 7 Community , Self - Government , and Progressive Reform 201 8 Liberalism and the Keynesian Revolution 250 9 The Triumph and ...
... citizenship and freedom that inform our public life . The inability of contemporary American politics to speak convincingly about self - government and community has something to do with the public philosophy by which we live . A public ...
... citizenship and freedom gradually crowded out the republican conception involves two intersecting tales . One traces the advent of the procedural republic from the first stirrings of American constitutionalism to recent debates about ...
... citizenship to the idea of respect for persons qua persons puts the moral case for welfare on a par with the case for foreign aid - a duty we owe strangers with whom we share a common humanity but possibly little else . Given its ...
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 |