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Democracy's discontent : a new edition for our perilous times /

Twenty-five years after his prescient Democracy's Discontent, Michael Sandel updates his classic work for our more fractious age. He shows how, since the 1990s, Democrats and Republicans embraced a market faith that led to the toxic politics of our time. To rescue democracy, he argues, we must...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sandel, Michael J. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2022.
Edition:First paperback edition.
Subjects:
Democracy > United States.
Liberalism > United States.
Civil rights > United States.
Citizenship > United States.
Politics, Practical.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface,
  • Preface to the Original Edition
  • Introduction to the New Edition: Democracy's Peril
  • The Public Philosophy of Contemporary Liberalism
  • 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
  • Epilogue: What Went Wrong