Individualism and public life : a modern dilemma / Ralph Ketcham
1987, First Edition. Oxford ; New York, NY, USA : B. Blackwell. 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. Item #387634
ISBN: 0631157735
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. individualizmus
egyén és társadalom
Intérêt personnel.
Individualism. Politics and government. Self-interest.
Social role United States.
Social role United States.
Individualism United States
Individualism. Self-interest.
United States Politics and government 1945-1989.
États-Unis Politique et gouvernement 1945-1989.
United States. USA
United 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.
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