The Missing Child in Liberal Theory
Towards a Covenant Theory of Family, Community Welfare, and the Civic State
by John O'Neill
ISBN: 080207586X
ISBN-13: 9780802075864
Format: Paperback
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Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Univ of Toronto Pr
Published date: 1994
Size: 6 x 9 inches
Weight: 0.45 pounds
Publisher's Notes
Every day we experience shocks to our civic sensibility. In our view, these shocks are due to the marketization of our social endowment, of family life, of childhood, health, and knowledge, of security and employment. The raw side of the trend towards the marketization and defamilization of the social bond is what we see in street crime, drugs, school drop-outs, single-family poverty, homelessness, and unemployment, which we experience either directly or vicariously through media reportage whose power to observe is equalled only by its inability to explain. Indeed, the media coverage of the daily degradation of the life-world is itself an essential ingredient in the reduction of social concern to social anxiety that further undermines civility.
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The Missing Child in Liberal Theory
O'Neill, John
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994 Ex-library copy. Shelfwear and rubbing. Library markings: label taped onto spine and pocket on half title page. Text is tight and bright. 136 pages with index. 5 1/2 by 81/2 inches in size. . Soft Cover. Good. ( more information) Offered by Trylinski Books (Canada)
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