Just love : transforming civic virtue / Ann Mongoven.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mongoven, Ann, 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social ethics.

Social values.

Moral conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (438 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Once upon a time, civic virtue described an ethic of political involvement for all citizens. As American democracy evolved, however, the public and private spheres separated. The latter became domesticated and disengaged from public life by an ideology based on gender and a "disinterested love" of neighbor. Private passion was to be isolated from public reason, private love from public justice. But it need not be so. Drawing on examples of ordinary heroes, Ann Mongoven argues for a transformed civic virtue that articulates "just love": passionate care for fellow citizens as such. By connecting theory to practice, Mongoven dramatizes the challenges raised through tangible political examples and lets ordinary heroes suggest the path toward civic renewal.

Contents:

Invisible heroes : mad about MADD

New calls for civic virtue, and calls for new civic virtues

The dilemma of impartiality : legacy of the bishop and the chambermaid

Impartiality-as-standpoint and lost (again) virtue

Saving the baby from the bathwater : a turn to practice

Impartiality-as-practice: the lesson of ordinary moral heroes

Just love : the transformation of civic virtue

Appendix : case studies.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-26316-1

9786612263163

0-253-00318-0

OCLC:

455851050