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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... Society for Ethical and Legal Philosophy , and the Harvard University Law School Faculty Workshop . Portions of ... Societies , the National Endowment for the Humanities , and Harvard Law School's Summer Research Program . Colleagues in ...
... society as a whole as if it were a single person; it conflates our many, diverse desires into a single system of desires. It is indifferent to the distribution of satisfactions among persons, except insofar as this may affect the ...
... society cultivate in citizens the expansive self - understandings that civic engagement requires ? If the pub- lic philosophy of our day leaves little room for civic considerations , it may help to recall how earlier generations of ...
... society as a whole cannot override .... The rights secured by justice are not subject to political bargaining or to the calculus of social interests . " 12 So Kantian liberals need an account of rights that does not depend on ...
... societies typically disagree about the good . Since this defense of neutrality does not depend on a Kantian ... societies , people sought to shape political life in the image of their own moral and religious ideals . But modern ...
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 |