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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... public philosophy implicit in our practices and institutions and to show how tensions in the philosophy show up in the practice . If theory never keeps its distance but inhabits the world from the start , we may find a clue to our Preface.
... practice , the assumptions about 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 ...
... practices were defended . And yet , for all its episodes of darkness , the republican tradition , with its emphasis on community and self - government , may offer a corrective to our impoverished civic life . Recalling the republican ...
... . Minimalist liberalism wants to sepa- rate the case for toleration from any judgment about the moral worth of the practices being tolerated . But this separation is not The Public Philosophy of Contemporary Liberalism . 19.
America in Search of a Public Philosophy Michael J. Sandel. the practices being tolerated . But this separation is not ... practice in question . This difficulty is illustrated by two political controversies that bear on grave moral and ...
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 |