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University Press of Kansas
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Fowler interprets the writings of public intellectuals like Robert Bellah, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Michael Walzer, William Bennett, Seymour Martin Lipset, William Galston, and others, as well as survey data of American political attitudes, to spotlight the oft-ignored divide between citizens and high-profile commentators, whose contentious debates are mistakenly assumed to reflect countrywide rifts.
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Series
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Fowler examines the attention to community in current American political thought and explores the setting of that attention. He identifies five alternative models of community integral to the current debates and sketches a clear image of each--its relationship to others, the logic of its appeal, and its emphases and problems. In each instance he places the model into the larger conversation over alternative communities and the value of community itself....