Democracys Discontent: A New Edition for Our Perilous Times Sandel Michael J.
Democracys Discontent: A New Edition for Our Perilous Times Sandel Michael J. A renowned political philosopher updates his classic book on the American political tradition to address the perils…
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Democracys Discontent: A New Edition for Our Perilous Times Sandel Michael J.
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. 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 Cold War had ended, and America's version of liberal capitalism seemed triumphant.
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, The market faith was eroding the common life.