In the spirit of recent works such as Habits of the Heart and The Closing of the American Mind, Ralph Ketcham's Individualism and Public Life asks whether the individualism which has made possible so many of the material advances we enjoy may also be the cause of the shortcomings troubling our society today.
By tracing the development of individualism from its origins in classical and Judeo-Christian traditions, and enlisting the insights of East Asian cultures, Ketcham re-evaluates the individualism which characterizes contemporary American society. He then poses a new politics of the public interest, including revised ideas of citizenship, leadership, and decision-making in a grand attempt to reconcile the individualism of American liberalism with a healthy conception of public life.
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Ralph Ketcham is Maxwell Professor Emeritus of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University.
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First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: xiii, 241 pages ; 24 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-228) and index. Contents: Paradoxes, 1945-85 -- Of Allied victory and the American century -- Of suburbia and the American way of life -- Of education -- Of affluence -- Of pluralistic politics -- Of world power -- Of therapy and humanistic psychology -- Of America as a civilization -- Individualism in Western culture -- Greek social individualism -- Judeo-Christian autonomous individualism -- A tension in citizenship -- The Renaissance, the Reformation, and puritanism -- The commercial spirit -- Science and empiricism -- Romanticism and Darwin -- John Stuart Mill and nineteenth-century liberalism -- Ambiguous legacy for twentieth-century America -- East Asian counterpoint: the shadow of Confucius -- The divergence of West and East -- A morality of relationship -- Eastern and Western ideas of self -- Eastern and Western ideas of the state -- The Japanese encounter with the West -- Society and psyche in modern Japan -- The public, the private, and democracy in East and West -- Public responsibility, order, and law in East Asia -- A different democracy in Japan -- Individualism and the public interest in the 1980s -- Individualism re-reconsidered -- Education for citizenship? -- Public-spirited and laissez-faire utopianism -- A jeffersonian model of citizenship -- Individualism, pluralism, and the leader as broker -- Leadership and ideal right -- Conflict of interest politics -- Decision-making and human nature -- The whole: more than the sum of the parts? -- Deciding on a law of the sea -- A politics of the public interest. Subjects: 1945-1989. Individualism.Self-interest. Individualism United States. individualizmusegyén és társadalomIntérêt personnel.Individualism. Politics and government. Self-interest.Social role United States.Social role United States.Individualism United StatesIndividualism. Self-interest.United States Politics and government 1945-1989.États-Unis Politique et gouvernement 1945-1989.United States. USAUnited States Politics and government 1945-1989.United States Politics and government 1945-United States Politics and government 1945-1953.United States Private life & public life Sociological perspectives. United States Private life & public life 3 Kg. N° de réf. du vendeur 387634
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