Inventing the Ties That Bind: Imagined Relationships in Moral and Political Life

by Francesca Polletta

Book Overview

At a time of deep political divisions, leaders have called on ordinary Americans to talk to one another: to share their stories, listen empathetically, and focus on what they have in common, not what makes them different. In Inventing the Ties that Bind, Francesca Polletta questions this popular solution for healing our rifts. Talking the way that friends do is not the same as equality, she points out. And initiatives that bring strangers...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022673417X
• ISBN13: 9780226734170
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"