Renewal: How to Heal a Divided Country
About this ebook
The renowned political philosopher Michael J. Sandel has a solution. Our democracy is in danger for two reasons, he argues. One is the authoritarian ambition of our governments. The other is the failure of opponents to offer a compelling response to the grievances that propelled them to power and that continue to sustain their support.
In Renewal, Sandel offers an agenda for change to deliver us from our dangerous political moment. With characteristic clarity and resonance, he calls for a new politics of the common good: an economic populism that challenges unaccountable power and inequalities of wealth, voice, and dignity, and a project of moral and civic renewal that speaks convincingly of patriotism, community, and belonging.
Clearheaded and practical yet conceptually rich, Renewal seeks to recast the terms of political debate. It is an essential book for our time; a project of renewal for everyone concerned with our polarized condition and the peril it poses for democracy.
About the author
Michael J. Sandel teaches political philosophy at Harvard University. His books What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets, and Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? were international best sellers and have been translated into 27 languages. Sandel's legendary course 'Justice' was the first Harvard course to be made freely available online and on television and has been viewed by tens of millions of people. His BBC series 'The Global Philosopher' explores the philosophical ideas lying behind the headlines with participants from around the world.
Sandel has been a visiting professor at the Sorbonne, delivered the Tanner Lectures on Human Values at Oxford, the Reith Lectures for the BBC, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His lecture tours have taken him across five continents and packed such venues as St. Paul's Cathedral (London), the Sydney Opera House (Australia), and an outdoor stadium in Seoul (S. Korea), where 14,000 people came to hear him speak.
