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Localism in the mass age : a Front Porch Republic manifesto / edited by Mark T. Mitchell and Jason Peters.

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Book
Contributor:
Mitchell, Mark T., editor.
Peters, Jason, 1963- editor.
ProQuest ebook central.
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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