Whose Keeper?
Social Science and Moral Obligation
1st Edition
Published on 23. September 2020
388 pages
978-0-520-30982-1 (ISBN)
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This book is a profound and creative treatise on modernity and its challenge to social science. Alan Wolfe argues that modern liberal democracies, such as the U.S. and Scandinavia, have broken with traditional sources of morality and instead have relied upon economic and political frameworks to define their obligations to one another. Wolfe calls for reinvigorating a sense of community and thus an sense of obligation to the larger society.
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At the time of original publication, Alan Wolfe was Professor of Sociology and Political Science and Dean of the Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research, and author of The Limits of Legitimacy and America's Impasse, among other books.
