Democracy's Discontent

America in Search of a Public Philosophy

Michael J. Sandel

    Preface

    PART I: THE CONSTITUTION OF THE PROCEDURAL REPUBLIC

    1. The Public Philosophy of Contemporary Liberalism

    2. Rights and the Neutral State

    3. Religious Liberty and Freedom of Speech

    4. Privacy Rights and Family Law

    PART II: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF CITIZENSHIP

    5. Economics and Virtue in the Early Republic

    6. Free Labor versus Wage Labor

    7. Community, Self-Government, and Progressive Reform

    8. Liberalism and the Keynesian Revolution

    9. The Triumph and Travail of the Procedural Republic

    Conclusion: In Search of a Public Philosophy

    Notes

    Index

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Michael J. Sandel is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government, Harvard University, and the author most recently of Public Philosophy (Harvard).