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Democracy's Discontent America in Search of a Public Philosophy

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ISBN-10: 0674197453

ISBN-13: 9780674197459

Edition: 1996

Authors: Michael J. Sandel

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The 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. In search of a public philosophy adequate to our time, Sandel ranges across the American political experience, recalling the arguments of Jefferson and Hamilton, Lincoln and Douglas, Holmes and Brandeis, FDR and Reagan. He relates epic debates over slavery and industrial capitalism to contemporary controversies over the welfare state, religion, abortion, gay rights, and hate speech.…    
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Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 2/6/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 0.61" wide x 0.94" long x 0.11" tall
Weight: 1.298

Preface
The Constitution Of The Procedural Republic
The Public Philosophy of Contemporary Liberalism
Rights and the Neutral State
Religious Liberty and Freedom of Speech
Privacy Rights and Family Law
THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF CITIZENSHIP
Economics and Virtue in the Early Republic
Free Labor versus Wage Labor
Community, Self-Government, and Progressive Reform
Liberalism and the Keynesian Revolution
The Triumph and Travail of the Procedural Republic
Conclusion: In Search of a Public Philosophy
Notes
Index
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