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Public Vision, Private Lives

Rousseau, Religion, and 21st-century Democracy

By: Mark Sydney Cladis

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Public Vision, Private Lives

Rousseau, Religion, and 21st-century Democracy

By: Mark Sydney Cladis

Mark S. Cladis pinpoints the origins of contemporary notions of the public and private and their relationship to religion in the work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. His thesis cuts across many fields and issues-philosophy of religion, women's studies, democratic theory, modern European history, American culture, social justice, privacy laws, and notions of solitude and community-and wholly reconsiders the political, cultural, and legal nature of modernity in relation to religion. Turning to Rousseau's Garden, its inhabitants, the Solitaires, and the question of restoration and redemption that preoccupied much of Rousseau's thought, Cladis examines how Rousseau addressed the tension between the joys and moral obligations of social engagement and the desire for solitude. He was caught between two possibilities: active involvement in the creation of an enlightened and humane society or extrication from social entanglements in favor of cultivating a spiritual interior life. Yet Rousseau did not view this conflict as a desperate division. Rather, for him it was a moral struggle to be endured by those who had fallen from the Garden. For this edition Cladis has added a substantive introduction that discusses the role of religion in contemporary democratic societies, particularly in American public life. Cladis proposes four models of thinking about religion in public and champions what he calls spiritual democracy-a dynamic, culturally specific, and progressive democracy. Cladis argues that spiritual democracy refers not only to a society's legal codes and principles but also to its democratic culture and symbols and its daily practices and institutions. It encompasses the nation's character, diverse identities, and a distinctivel exchange between the nation's public vision and citizens' complex, private lives.

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Rousseau, Religion, and 21st-century Democracy

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A Communitarian Defense of Liberalism

Emile Durkheim and Contemporary Social Theory

By: Mark S. Cladis

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A Communitarian Defense of Liberalism

Emile Durkheim and Contemporary Social Theory

By: Mark S. Cladis

In this provocative and timely reading of Emile Durkheim the author isolates the merits and liabilities of both liberal and communitarian theories and demonstrates that we need not be in the position of having to choose between them.

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Stanford University Press

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Public Vision, Private Lives

Public Vision, Private Lives

Public Vision, Private Lives

Public Vision, Private Lives

A Communitarian Defense of Liberalism

A Communitarian Defense of Liberalism

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