This book explores the condition of American civil society, evaluates the forces-political, social, demographic, and global-that are operating upon it, and provides critical thinking on how to strengthen it in the decades ahead. Drawing from some of the country's leading thinkers, it looks candidly at the stress fractures on American society- issues such as the underclass, gender, family, and religion, and concludes with five philosophical perspectives: libertarian, populist, communitarian, traditionalist, and the political and cultural center.
- ISBN10 0819196142
- ISBN13 9780819196149
- Publish Date 8 January 1995 (first published 22 November 1994)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University Press of America
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 550
- Language English