{"product_id":"individualism-and-public-life-isbn-9780631157731","title":"Individualism and Public Life","description":"In the spirit of recent works such as \u003ci\u003eHabits of the Heart\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Closing of the American Mind\u003c\/i\u003e, Ralph Ketcham's \u003ci\u003eIndividualism and Public Life\u003c\/i\u003e 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.  \u003cp\u003eBy 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.\u003c\/p\u003e Paradoxes, 1945-85 \u003cp\u003eOf Allied victory and the American century\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOf suburbia and the American way of life\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOf education\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOf affluence\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOf pluralistic politics\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOf world power\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOf therapy and humanistic psychology\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOf America as a civilization\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndividualism in Western culture\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGreek social individualism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJudeo-Christian autonomous individualism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA tension in citizenship\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Renaissance, the Reformation, and puritanism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe commercial spirit\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eScience and empiricism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRomanticism and Darwin\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Stuart Mill and nineteenth-century liberalism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAmbiguous legacy for twentieth-century America\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEast Asian counterpoint: the shadow of Confucius\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe divergence of West and East\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA morality of relationship\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEastern and Western ideas of self\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEastern and Western ideas of the state\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Japanese encounter with the West\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSociety and psyche in modern Japan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe public, the private, and democracy in East and West\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublic responsibility, order, and law in East Asia\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA different democracy in Japan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndividualism and the public interest in the 1980s\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndividualism re-reconsidered\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEducation for citizenship?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublic-spirited and laissez-faire utopianism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA jeffersonian model of citizenship\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndividualism, pluralism, and the leader as broker\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLeadership and ideal right\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConflict of interest politics\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDecision-making and human nature\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe whole: more than the sum of the parts?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDeciding on a law of the sea\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA politics of the public interest\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eRalph Ketcham is Maxwell Professor Emeritus of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University.   In the spirit of recent works such as \u003ci\u003eHabits of the Heart\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Closing of the American Mind\u003c\/i\u003e, Ralph Ketcham's \u003ci\u003eIndividualism and Public Life\u003c\/i\u003e 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.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989415575781,"sku":"NP9780631157731","price":44.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780631157731.jpg?v=1761784015","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/individualism-and-public-life-isbn-9780631157731","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}