Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-166) and index.
Contents
Public policy and political life -- The quest for a public ethic -- Knowledge and responsibility -- Earth day -- Symbol and reality -- Medieval community and the rise of modernity -- The economic revolution -- Morality and the marketplace -- Modern society and social theory -- The idea of the public -- The pluralist concept of politics -- Individualism as a form of social thought -- Individualism in America -- Public speech versus bureaucratic language -- Core values in the American liberal tradition -- Religion and property -- The American Indian -- Liberty, equality, and slavery -- The self as person-in-community -- The information society -- The television culture -- The citizen as consumer -- What is my personal relation to what I don't know? -- Churches as public interest groups -- Moral imagination and hope.