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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... institutions are embodiments of theory . We could hardly describe our political life , much less engage in it , without recourse to a language laden with theory - of rights and obligations , citizenship and freedom , democracy and law ...
... institutions , but also within the ideals themselves , and within the self - image our public life reflects . Part I of this book took form as the Julius Rosenthal Foundation Lectures at Northwestern University School of Law in 1989. I ...
... institutions of social life are means to that end . " It is only as participants in political association that we can realize our nature and fulfill our highest ends . " Unlike the ancient conception , liberal political theory does not ...
... institution of slavery as a wrong , and of another class that does not look upon it as a wrong . " Lincoln and the Republican party viewed slavery as a wrong and insisted that it " be treated as a wrong , and one of the methods of ...
... institutions . Now it might be thought that the very existence of the procedural republic as a sustained practice puts to rest the philosophical objections raised against it . If the neutral state succeeds in securing a scheme of rights ...
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 |