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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... - Government , and Progressive Reform 201 8 Liberalism and the Keynesian Revolution 250 9 The Triumph and Travail of the Procedural Republic 274 Conclusion : In Search of a Public Philosophy 317 Notes Index 353 407 1 :
... reform outruns our respect for the gap between theory and practice . But if political philosophy is unrealizable in one sense , it is unavoidable in another . This is the sense in which philosophy inhabits the world from the start ; our ...
... reforms , the Lochner Court's service to contemporary liberalism may not be readily apparent . Armed with the doctrine of substantive due process , it had defended the excesses of industrial capitalism and frustrated progressive reforms ...
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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 |
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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 |