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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... reflects . Part I of this book took form as the Julius Rosenthal Foundation Lectures at Northwestern University School of Law in 1989. I am grateful to Dean Robert W. Bennett and the faculty for their warm hospitality and searching ...
... . Finally , this work reflects much that I have learned from my wife , Kiku Adatto , a gifted writer on American culture . She did more than anyone else to improve this book , which I dedicate to her with love . Preface · xi.
... reflection . Liberal and Republican Freedom The political philosophy by which we live is a certain version of liberal political theory . Its central idea is that government should be neutral toward the moral and religious views its ...
... reflects . The quality at stake is the disposition to see and bear one's life circumstance as a reflectively situated being― claimed by the history that implicates me in a particular life , but self - con- scious of its particularity ...
... reflects the fact that , even after reasoned reflection , decent , intelligent people will come to different conceptions about the nature of the good life . Given the fact of reasonable pluralism , we should try to decide questions of ...
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 |