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Democracy's discontent America in search of a public philosophy

by Sandel Michael J.

Synopsis

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. Democracy's Discontent provides a new interpretation of the American political and constitutional tradition that offers hope of rejuvenating our civic life.

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Book Information

Copyright year 1998
ISBN-13 9780674197459
ISBN-10 0674197453
Class Copyright
Publisher Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Subject POLITICAL SCIENCE
File Size 0 MB
Number of Pages 417
Length of Recording 23
Shelf No. JD574