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Democracy's Discontent : A New Edition for Our Perilous Times by Michael J. Sandel (2022, Trade Paperback)
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PublisherHarvard University Press
ISBN-100674270711
ISBN-139780674270718
eBay Product ID (ePID)27057244046
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Edition2
Book TitleDemocracy's Discontent : a New Edition for Our Perilous Times
Number of Pages384 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2022
TopicPolitical, American Government / General, Political Ideologies / Democracy, United States / General
GenrePolitical Science, Philosophy, History
AuthorMichael J. Sandel
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight14.3 Oz
Item Length8.3 in
Item Width5.4 in
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LCCN2022-002887
ReviewsFew books are as relevant a quarter-century after their appearance as when published--but Michael Sandel has made his classic Democracy's Discontent even more so. Rethinking how the political economy of the middle of the twentieth century has mutated to the detriment of American citizenship, substituting consumerism and globalization for community and self-rule, this is a touchstone study for our times., Michael Sandel's deeply insightful analysis of the erosion of the political economy of citizenship has never been more timely than at the present moment. Essential--and ultimately hopeful--reading for all those who wonder if our democratic experiment will survive in the twenty-first century.
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal320.973
SynopsisTwenty-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 reimagine the economy and revitalize the civic project., A renowned political philosopher updates his classic book on the American political tradition to address the perils democracy confronts today. The 1990s were a heady time. The Cold War had ended, and America's version of liberal capitalism seemed triumphant. And yet, amid the peace and prosperity, anxieties about the project of self-government could be glimpsed beneath the surface. So argued Michael Sandel, in his influential and widely debated book Democracy's Discontent, published in 1996. The market faith was eroding the common life. A rising sense of disempowerment was likely to provoke backlash, he wrote, from those who would "shore up borders, harden the distinction between insiders and outsiders, and promise a politics to 'take back our culture and take back our country,' to 'restore our sovereignty' with a vengeance." In this new edition, Sandel updates his classic work for an age when democracy's discontent has hardened into a country divided against itself. He extends his account of America's civic struggles from the 1990s to the present. He shows how Democrats and Republicans alike embraced a version of finance-driven globalization that created a society of winners and losers and fueled the toxic politics of our time. In a work celebrated when first published as "a remarkable fusion of philosophical and historical scholarship" (Alan Brinkley), Sandel recalls moments in the American past when the country found ways to hold economic power to democratic account. To reinvigorate democracy, Sandel argues in a stirring new epilogue, we need to reconfigure the economy and empower citizens as participants in a shared public life., A renowned political philosopher updates his classic book on the American political tradition to address the perils democracy confronts today. The 1990s were a heady time. The Cold War had ended, and America's version of liberal capitalism seemed triumphant. And yet, amid the peace and prosperity, anxieties about the project of self-government could be glimpsed beneath the surface. So argued Michael Sandel, in his influential and widely debated book Democracy's Discontent, published in 1996. The market faith was eroding the common life. A rising sense of disempowerment was likely to provoke backlash, he wrote, from those who would "shore up borders, harden the distinction between insiders and outsiders, and promise a politics to 'take back our culture and take back our country, ' to 'restore our sovereignty' with a vengeance." Now, a quarter century later, Sandel updates his classic work for an age when democracy's discontent has hardened into a country divided against itself. In this new edition, he extends his account of America's civic struggles from the 1990s to the present. He shows how Democrats and Republicans alike embraced a version of finance-driven globalization that created a society of winners and losers and fueled the toxic politics of our time. In a work celebrated when first published as "a remarkable fusion of philosophical and historical scholarship" (Alan Brinkley), Sandel recalls moments in the American past when the country found ways to hold economic power to democratic account. To reinvigorate democracy, Sandel argues in a stirring new epilogue, we need to reconfigure the economy and empower citizens as participants in a shared public life.
LC Classification NumberJK1726.S325 2022
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