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  • Hardcover: 416 pages
  • Publisher: University Press of Kentucky (June 3, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0813130131
  • ISBN-13: 978-0813130132
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Acknowledgments

Introduction: "A Better Sort of Love": On the Life and Thought of Wilson Carey McWilliams, 1933-2005
by Patrick J. Deneen and Susan J. McWilliams

Part 1: Political Thought in America

Liberty, Equality and the Problem of Community
Religion and the American Founding
Civil Religion in the Age of Reason: Thomas Paine on Liberalism, Redemption and Revolution
The Anti-Federalists
Standing at Armageddon: Morality and Religion in Progressive Thought
America's Two Voices in a World of Nations

Part 2: Political Thinkers

George Orwell and Ideology
Reinhold Niebuhr: New Orthodoxy for Old Liberalism
Community and Its Discontents: Amitai Etzioni and the Future of Communitarianism
Bertrand de Jouvenel on Politics and Political Science in America
Leo Strauss and the Dignity of American Political Thought
Power After Power: Reflections on Liberalism in Sheldon Wolin's Politics and Vision

Part 3: Theory and Practice

Of Time and History
On Political Illegitimacy
Civil Disobedience and Contemporary Constitutionalism: The American Case
The Case for Censorship, Rightly Understood
Equality and Citizenship: The Rights of Man and the Rights of Women
Honor in Contemporary American Politics

Part 4: Democracy as a Moral Enterprise

Democracy as Means and End
The Search for a Public Philosophy
Toward Genuine Self-Government
Democratic Multiculturalism
Critical Rebound: Why America Needs a Catholic Recovery
Religion, Morality and Public Life

Index
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