Public vision, private lives
Subtitle: Rousseau, religion, and 21st-century democracy
By: Mark S. Cladis ; With a new essay by the author.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780231139694
Subjects: Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, -- 1712-1778.; Democracy.; Privacy.; Public interest.; Religion and politics.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-283) and index.
Table of contents: title: Religion, democracy, and modernity : the case for progressive spiritual democracy; title: Preparing for the journey : an introduction; title: I. From the garden to the city : the tragic passage.  Nature's garden ; Revisiting the garden's solitaires ; From the garden to the blessed country : the precarious passage ; The rush to slavery; title: The city : life in the ousted condition ; Overcoming moral evil : Rousseau at the crossroads; title: II. Paths to redemption.  Reforming the city : the extreme public path ; Evading the city : the private path ; The mountain village : the path to family, work, community, and love ; Reconciling citizen and solitaire : religious dimensions of the middle way ; Residual conflict : democracy and ineluctable friction; title: A way forward : Rousseau and 21st-century democracy.