Habits of the Heart – Individualism & Commitment in American Life – Updated & New Introduction (Paper): Individualism and Commitment in American Life - Softcover

Bellah, Robert N

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520205685 ISBN 13: 9780520205680

Publisher: University of California Press, 1996

Synopsis

Attention has been focused on forms of social organisation, be it civil society, democratic communitarianism, or associative democracy, that can humanise the market and the administrative state. In their new Introduction the authors relate the argument of their book both to the current realities of American society and to the growing debate about the country's future. With this new edition one of the most influential books of recent times takes on a new immediacy.

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About the Author

Robert N. Bellah is Elliott Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, and the author of several books, including The New Religious Consciousness (with Charles Y. Glock) (1975). Richard Madsen is Professor of Sociology, University of California, San Diego; his most recent book is China and the American Dream (California, 1995). William M. Sullivan is Professor of Philosophy, LaSalle University, Philadelphia; his most recent book is Work and Integrity: The Crisis and Promise of Professionalism in America (1994). Ann Swidler is Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, and the author of Organization Without Authority: Dilemmas of Social Control in Free Schools (1980). Steven M. Tipton is Professor, Candler School of Theology, Emory University, and author of Getting Saved from the Sixties: Moral Meaning in Conversion and Cultural Change (California, 1982). The authors also collaborated on the writing of The Good Society (1991).
In 2000, Robert Bellah was one of twelve recipients of the National Humanities Medal

From the Back Cover

"The contemporary benchmark from which to look back and look forward in the continuing inquiry about American character."—Daniel Bell

"One of the most penetrating examinations of American individualism I have seen. . . . I hope it will be read and debated for years."—Christopher Lasch, author of The Culture of Narcissism

From the Inside Flap

"The contemporary benchmark from which to look back and look forward in the continuing inquiry about American character."Daniel Bell

"One of the most penetrating examinations of American individualism I have seen. . . . I hope it will be read and debated for years."Christopher Lasch, author ofThe Culture of Narcissism

Edition details

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0520205685
• ISBN 13: 9780520205680
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 404