The Politics of Gratitude: Scale, Place & Community in a Global Age - Couverture rigide

Mitchell, Mark T.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1597976636 ISBN 13 : 9781597976633

Editeur : Potomac Books Inc, 2012

Synopsis

Many Americans are longing for an alternative politics that is rooted in strong communities, a recognition of limits, and respect for the natural world. These issues are not the possession of one political party. Rather, they refer to ideas rooted deeply in the best aspects of our common tradition, and they represent yearnings that many, regardless of political affiliation, share. This book articulates a cultural and political vision that leads off the couch and into the garden, out of the shopping mall and into the farmer's market, away from Washington and in the direction of home.

In this postpartisan call to action, Mitchell develops the concept of the "politics of gratitude," which is centered around four ideas: creatureliness, gratitude, human scale, and place, culminating in a distinctive, fruitful view of human nature and community at odds with the prevailing norms of individualism (and, not so paradoxically, statism), giantism, and hypermobility. Going beyond the liberal-conservative factionalism that has reduced our political and cultural discourse to clichés and vitriol, he urges us to become responsible stewards of the earth who are committed to family and community and who abide in gratitude, taking nothing for granted.The result is a political and cultural vision that is at once local, limited, modest, republican, green--and grateful.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Mark T. Mitchell teaches political theory at Patrick Henry College in Purcellville, Virginia. In March 2009, with Chelsea Green author Bill Kauffman and a handful of other men and women, he cofounded the online blog/zine Front Porch Republic. Mitchell is the author of the intellectual biography Michael Polanyi: The Art of Knowing and coeditor of The Humane Vision of Wendell Berry. He lives in Kearneysville, West Virginia.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Potomac Books Inc
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1597976636
• ISBN 13: 9781597976633
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 232
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible