Our Politics, Our Selves?: Liberalism, Identity, and Harm

by P.E. Digeser

Is statecraft soulcraft? Should we look to our souls and selves in assessing the quality of our politics? Is it the business of politics to cultivate, shape, or structure our internal lives? Summarizing and answering the major theoretical positions on these issues, Peter Digeser formulates a qualified permission to protect or encourage particular forms of human identity. Public discourse on politics should not preclude talk about the role of reason...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691037167
• ISBN13: 9780691037165
• Release Date: April 1995
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.8" x 10.0"