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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... 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 practices and institutions are embodiments of ...
... theory that we live . Attending to the theory implicit in our public life may help us to diagnose our political condition . It may also reveal that the predicament of American democracy resides not only in the gap between our ideals and ...
... Theory of Justice, “Each person possesses an inviolability founded on justice that even the welfare of society as a whole cannot override.... The rights secured by justice are not subject to political bargaining or to the calculus of ...
... theory implicit in our 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 ...
... theory . Central to republican theory is the idea that liberty depends on sharing in self - government . This idea is not by itself inconsistent with liberal freedom . Participating in politics can be one among the ways in which people ...
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 |