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Good Neighbors: The Democracy of Everyday Life in America
Nancy L. Rosenblum
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Description for Good Neighbors: The Democracy of Everyday Life in America
Hardback. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Love thy neighbor is an impossible exhortation. Good neighbors greet us on the street and do small favors, but neighbors also startle us with sounds at night and unleash their demons on us, they monitor and reproach us, and betray us to authorities. The moral principles prescribed for friendship, civil society, and democratic public life apply imperfectly to life around home, where we interact day to day without the formal institutions, rules of conduct, and means of enforcement that guide us in other settings. In Good Neighbors, Nancy Rosenblum explores how encounters among neighbors create a democracy of everyday ... Read more
Love thy neighbor is an impossible exhortation. Good neighbors greet us on the street and do small favors, but neighbors also startle us with sounds at night and unleash their demons on us, they monitor and reproach us, and betray us to authorities. The moral principles prescribed for friendship, civil society, and democratic public life apply imperfectly to life around home, where we interact day to day without the formal institutions, rules of conduct, and means of enforcement that guide us in other settings. In Good Neighbors, Nancy Rosenblum explores how encounters among neighbors create a democracy of everyday ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691169439
SKU
V9780691169439
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99-15
About Nancy L. Rosenblum
Nancy L. Rosenblum is the Senator Joseph Clark Professor of Ethics in Politics and Government at Harvard University. Her books include On the Side of the Angels and Membership and Morals (both Princeton).
Reviews for Good Neighbors: The Democracy of Everyday Life in America
[Rosenblum] draws on a wide range of historical, literary, and sociological sources
from the stories of Raymond Carver to an ethnography of Crown Heights, Brooklyn
to produce a kaleidoscopic picture of American neighborliness.
Joshua Rothman, New Yorker
from the stories of Raymond Carver to an ethnography of Crown Heights, Brooklyn
to produce a kaleidoscopic picture of American neighborliness.
Joshua Rothman, New Yorker