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Individualism and Public Life: British Internal Security in the Twentieth Century

Individualism and Public Life: British Internal Security in the Twentieth Century

Hardcover

General Sociology

ISBN10: 0631157735
ISBN13: 9780631157731
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: Oct 1 1987
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.26
Height: 0.87 Width: 6.39 Depth: 9.33
Language: English
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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