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Localism in the mass age : a Front Porch Republic manifesto / edited by Mark T. Mitchell and Jason Peters.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Well-being--Social aspects--United States.
- Well-being.
- Social change--United States.
- Social change.
- Social aspects.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxii, 306 pages.)
- Place of Publication:
- Eugene, OR : Front Porch Republic Books, [2018]
- [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2018]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Preface / Mark T. Mitchell
- Introduction: A republic of front porches / Patrick J. Deneen
- Part one: Departure and return
- Look homeward, angel (and others) / Bill Kauffman
- Birthright / Katherine Dalton
- The orphans of success and the longing for home / Jason Peters
- Part two: Politics and economics
- Federalism, anti-federalism, and the view from the front porch / Jeff Polet
- The quest for the common good: political economy on the front porch / John Médaille
- Opposition to crony capitalism: a truly bipartisan opportunity / Andrew V. Abela
- Agrarian politics and the American tradition / Jeff Taylor
- American foreign policy and modest republicanism: the great rule reconstituted / Michael P. Federici
- The demise of virtue in virtual America / David Bosworth
- Part three: The home economy
- Work, death, and the romantic agrarian / Mark T. Mitchell
- The productive home vs. the consuming home / Allan Carlson
- Killing the animals we eat / John Cuddeback
- Part four: Art and education
- "A new magnetic north": 39 theses on education / R. J. Snell
- Reimagining the university with Wendell Berry / Jack R. Baker and Jeffrey Bilbro
- Art, beauty, and communal life / James Matthew Wilson
- Part five: Civic life
- A land like no other: American exceptionalism and the problem of scale / Richard Gamble
- Do-It-Ourselves citizenship / Pete Peterson
- Luxury and buying local / David Cloutier
- Part six: The urban challenge
- Chicago 2109: the metropolitan region as agrarian-urban unit / Philip Bess
- Port City confidential / Susannah Black
- Part seven: Philanthropy
- Satan was the first philanthropist / Jeremy Beer
- Philanthropy's war on community / William A. Schambra
- Part eight: Technology and popular culture
- Technology, mobility and community / Christine Rosen
- Our hookup culture / Susan McWilliams
- Part nine: Beyond the corruption of moth and rust
- Life under compulsion: rejecting the glorious liberty of the children of God / Anthony Esolen
- Defining conservatism down / D. G. Hart
- Imagination and memory deformed: the gnostic resentment of embodied life and its limits / Mark Shiffman
- Afterword / Jason Peters.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781532614446
- 1532614446
- Publisher Number:
- 99985433624
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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