The freedom to take part in civic life--whether in the exercise
of one's right to vote or congregate and protest--has become
increasingly less important to Americans than individual rights and
liberties. In "Public Freedom," renowned political theorist Dana
Villa argues that political freedom is essential to both the
preservation of constitutional government and the very substance of
American democracy itself.
Through intense close readings of theorists such as Hegel,
Tocqueville, Mill, Adorno, Arendt, and Foucault, Villa diagnoses
the key causes of our democratic discontent and offers solutions to
preserve at least some of our democratic hopes. He demonstrates how
Americans' preoccupation with a market-based conception of
freedom--that is, the personal freedom to choose among different
material, moral, and vocational goods--has led to the gradual
erosion of meaningful public participation in politics as well as
diminished interest in the health of the public realm itself. Villa
critically examines, among other topics, the promise and limits of
civil society and associational life as sources of democratic
renewal; the effects of mass media on the public arena; and the
problematic but still necessary ideas of civic competence and
democratic maturity.
"Public Freedom" is a passionate and insightful defense of
political liberties at a moment in America's history when such
freedoms are very much at risk.
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