The Home We Build Together

Recreating Society
Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8264-8070-5
Verlag: Continuum International Publishing Group

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm

This is Jonathan Sacks’ new book on the future of British society and the dangers facing liberal democracy. A counterweight to his earlier book, The Dignity of Difference, Sacks makes the case for “integrated diversity” within a framework of shared political values.

Arguing that global communications have fragmented national cultures and that multiculturalism, intended to reduce social friction, is today reinforcing it, Sacks calls for a new approach to national identity. He envisions a responsibility-based rather than rights-based model of citizenship that connects the ideas of giving and belonging. We should see society as "the home we build together", bringing the distinctive gifts of different groups to the common good. Sacks warns of the hazards free and open societies face in the 21st century, and offers an unusual religious defence of liberal democracy and the nation state.

This logical sequel to Sacks' award-winning The Dignity of Difference (Continuum), The Home We Build Together makes a compelling case for "integrated diversity" within a framework of shared political values.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sacks, Jonathan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Staatsbürgerkunde, Staatsbürgerschaft, Zivilgesellschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Innen-, Bildungs- und Bevölkerungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Globalisierung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Globalisierung, Transformationsprozesse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part One: Where are we? How did we get here?
1. Introduction
2. Society: Country House, Hotel or Home?
3.A Brief History of Multiculturalism
4. Technology and the Fragmentation of Culture
5. Loss of Moral Consensus
6. Losing Confidence
7. The Breakdown of the Family
Part Two: Faith in Freedom
8. Prologue
9. The Concept of a Social Covenant
10. A Religious Defence of Liberal Democracy
11. Active Citizenship
12. Face-to-face, Side-by-side
13. The Jewish Experience
14. The Home We Build Together
Part Three: Where next?
15. Narrative and Identity
16. Civility
17. Tolerance
18. In Defence of the Nation State
19. Social Capital
20. Bilingualism: Against Simple-mindedness in Politics
21. The National Conversation
22. Epilogue

Über Autor(innen)

Sir Jonathan Sacks is Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of Britain and the Commonwealth. He is the author of numerous books, including Celebrating Life, From Optimism to Hope, The Persistence of Faith and The Dignity of Difference, for which he won a Grawemeyer Award in Religion.