Democracy's discontent : America in search of a public philosophy
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Democracy's discontent : America in search of a public philosophy
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1996
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Includes bibliographical notes (p. [353]-406) and index
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Description
This text looks at the problems that face democracy in America. It traces the predicament to the public philosophy of America. It argues that the defects lie in the impoverished vision of citizenship and community shared by Democrats and Republicans alike.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 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. Part 2 The political economy of citizenship: economics and virtue in the early republic: free labour versus wage labour
- 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.
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