
- 390 pages
- English
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About this book
Whose Keeper? is a profound and creative treatise on modernity and its challenge to social science. Alan Wolfe argues that modern liberal democracies, such as the United States and Scandinavia, have broken with traditional sources of mortality and instead have relied upon economic and political frameworks to define their obligations to one another. Wolfe calls for reinvigorating a sense of community and thus a sense of obligation to the larger society.This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1989.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Modernity and Its Discontents
- ONE The Dubious Triumph of Economic Man
- TWO Markets and Intimate Obligations
- THREE Markets and Distant Obligations
- FOUR The State as a Moral Agent
- FIVE Welfare States and Moral Regulation
- SIX States and Distant Obligations
- SEVEN Sociology Without Society
- EIGHT The Social Construction of Morality
- NINE The Gift of Society
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Subject Index
- Name Index