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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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      Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
      Publication Date: 29/01/1988
      ISBN13: 9780631157731, 978-0631157731
      ISBN10: 0631157735
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      Book Synopsis
      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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