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Caring democracy : markets, equality, and justice /
Americans face a caring deficit: there are simply too many demands on people's time for us to care adequately for our children, elderly people, and ourselves. At the same time, political involvement in the United States is at an all-time low, and although political life should help us to care b...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University Press,
[2013]
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| Colección: | UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Political Science and Policy Studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Americans face a caring deficit: there are simply too many demands on people's time for us to care adequately for our children, elderly people, and ourselves. At the same time, political involvement in the United States is at an all-time low, and although political life should help us to care better, people see caring as unsupported by public life and deem the concerns of politics as remote from their lives. This book argues that we need to rethink American democracy, as well as our fundamental values and commitments, from a caring perspective. The idea that production and economic life are the most important political and human concerns ignores the reality that caring, for ourselves and others, should be the highest value that shapes how we view the economy, politics, and institutions such as schools and the family. Care is at the center of our human lives, but the author argues it is too far removed from the concerns of politics. This book traces the reasons for this disconnection and argues for the need to make care, not economics, the central concern of democratic political life. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xix, 228 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-214) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0814770452 9780814770450 9780814770344 0814770347 |