...sociational activities," but to pursue only those redistributions that are required to sustain the kind of civil society that is compatible with a liberal order--a civil association, based on the...
... which they once were articulated is on the wane. Indeed, the movement of civil society is itself a new kind of utopia: the normative principles underlying it, plurality, publicity, legality, equality...
...f living. For there to be a civil society, according to the ancient conception, is for there to be this kind of political community. Skipping a few centuries, by the time we get to contractarian thoug...
...quot;togetherness principle." Now these two premises, both of which I think true, are in a certain kind of tension with each other. Libertarians such as Robert Nozick suggest that we deserve our ...
...ociation that are not political in form: families, neighborhoods, voluntary associations of innumerable kind s, labor unions, small businesses, giant corporations, and religious communities." Some...
...chools by groups such as the Thomas Jefferson Center. What is yet to come is a major social movement, a kind of neo-progressive movement that would shore up the commons, making its main agenda curbing...
... simply not very serviceable or useful anymore. In trying to think through our situation, we need a new kind of empiricism and openmindedness, one that involves, among other things, the disaggregation...
...of trust. It is this awareness of the impoverishment of moral vocabulary that has set the stage for the kind s of issues that have driven the revival of contemporary communitarian debate. One of the w...
...ican intellectual experience. I had in mind the philosophy of John Dewey. There are signs today of a rekind led appreciation for what was once considered a crowning achievement in American thought. De...
...he economic subsystem to dominate all other spheres of social activity, evaluation, and judgment. (This kind of critique of pure market rationality conforms very well to Michael Walzer's or Alan W...
... ecologically reasonable jobs, Keynesian political concepts must fail, unless they are modified to some kind of a "Keynes-Plus Project." This is not an "economics of full employment,&qu...
...ed in other economic fields were transferred to social services this would simply destroy their special kind of "productivity." To put it very bluntly, replacing nurses, teachers, doctors, a...
...why societies that we have come to regard as modern do not rely on social solidarity but rather on some kind of insurance system or welfare regime that externalizes the costs of the market economy by ...
... evolved in the same way here. We have had what Michael Harrington used to call 20 years ago a kind of invisible social democracy centered largely in the Democratic Party, but it has been alw...
...ty and, if you like, class unity, ceases to be valid. What we find today is the complete absence of the kind of concern with Americanization which one found in the United States in the 1880 to 1922 pe...
...her derived from the secular progressivism of socialism or from Christian social doctrines (or from the kind of reflective liberalism we had in Smith's "moral sentiments") were fundament...
...based on a single economic model of unfettered market sovereignty and a neo-liberal non-interventionist kind of state. For them the failure of communism proves the superiority of capitalism over any k...
