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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1. The Ethics of Enhancement -- 2. Bionic Athletes -- 3. Designer Children, Designing Parents -- 4. The Old Eugenics and the New -- 5. Mastery and Gift -- Epilogue. Embryo Ethics: The Stem Cell Debate -- Notes -- Index

Twenty-five years after his prescient Democracy's Discontent, Michael Sandel updates his classic work for our more fractious age. He shows how, since the 1990s, Democrats and Republicans embraced a market faith that led to the toxic politics of our time. To rescue democracy, he argues, we must reimagine the economy and revitalize the civic project.

Verlagsinfo: A renowned political philosopher updates his classic book on the American political tradition to address the perils democracy confronts today.The 1990s were a heady time. The Cold War had ended, and America's version of liberal capitalism seemed triumphant. And yet, amid the peace and prosperity, anxieties about the project of self-government could be glimpsed beneath the surface. So argued Michael Sandel, in his influential and widely debated book 'Democracy's Discontent', published in 1996. The market faith was eroding the common life. A rising sense of disempowerment was likely to provoke backlash, he wrote, from those who would shore up borders, harden the distinction between insiders and outsiders, and promise a politics to 'take back our culture and take back our country, to restore our sovereignty with a vengeance. Now, a quarter century later, Sandel updates his classic work for an age when democracy's discontent has hardened into a country divided against itself. In this new edition, he extends his account of America's civic struggles from the 1990s to the present. He shows how Democrats and Republicans alike embraced a version of finance-driven globalization that created a society of winners and losers and fueled the toxic politics of our time.In a work celebrated when first published as 'a remarkable fusion of philosophical and historical scholarship' (Alan Brinkley), Sandel recalls moments in the American past when the country found ways to hold economic power to democratic account. To reinvigorate democracy, Sandel argues in a stirring new epilogue, we need to reconfigure the economy and empower citizens as participants in a shared public life.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword: China's Encounter with Michael Sandel / Osnos, Evan -- Justice, Harmony, and Community -- Community without Harmony? A Confucian Critique of Michael Sandel / Li, Chenyang -- Individual, Family, Community, and Beyond: Some Confucian Reflections on Themes in Sandel's Justice / Bai, Tongdong -- Justice as a Virtue, Justice according to Virtues, and / or Justice of Virtues: A Confucian Amendment to Michael Sandel's Idea of Justice / Huang, Yong -- II. Civic Virtue and Moral Education -- Sandel's Ideas on Civic Virtue / Huiling, Zhu -- Sandel's Democracy's Discontent from a Confucian Perspective / Lai, Chen -- III. Pluralism and Perfection: Sandel and the Daoist Tradition -- Gender, Moral Disagreements, and Freedom: Sandel's Politics of Common Good in Chinese Contexts / Wang, Robin R. -- Satisfaction, Genuine Pretending, and Perfection: Sandel's The Case against Perfection and Daoism / D ' Ambrosio, Paul J. -- IV. Conceptions of the Person: Sandel and the Confucian Tradition -- Theorizing the "Person" in Confucian Ethics / Ames, Roger T. -- How to Think about Morality without Moral Agents / Rosemont Jr., Henry -- A Sandelian Response to Confucian Role Ethics / D ' Ambrosio, Paul J. -- V. Reply by Michael Sandel -- Learning from Chinese Philosophy / Sandel, Michael J. -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Index

Doing the right thing -- The greatest happiness principle : utilitarianism -- Do we own ourselves? : libertarianism -- Hired help : markets and morals -- What matters is the motive : Immanuel Kant -- The case for equality : John Rawls -- Arguing affirmative action -- Who deserves what? : Aristotle -- What do we owe one another? : dilemmas of loyalty -- Justice and the common good

Introduction : doing the right thing -- Utilitarianism -- Libertarianism -- Locke : property rights -- Markets and morals : surrogate motherhood, military service -- Kant : freedom as autonomy -- Rawls : justice as fairness -- Distributive justice : equality, entitlement, and merit -- Affirmative action : reverse discrimination? -- Aristotle : justice and virtue -- Ability, disability, and discrimination : cheerleaders and golf carts -- Justice, community, and membership -- Moral argument and liberal toleration -- Morality and law : same-sex marriage, for and against

A liberal society seeks not to impose a single way of life, but to leave its citizens as free as possible to choose their own values and ends. It therefore must govern by principles of justice that do not presuppose any particular vision of the good life. But can any such principles be found? And if not, what are the consequences for justice as a moral and political ideal? These are the questions Michael Sandel takes up in this penetrating critique of contemporary liberalism. Sandel locates modern liberalism in the tradition of Kant, and focuses on its most influential recent expression in the work of John Rawls. In the most important challenge yet to Rawls' theory of justice, Sandel traces the limits of liberalism to the conception of the person that underlies it, and argues for a deeper understanding of community than liberalism allows