Sandel's Democracy's Discontent (1996) is a historical and philosophical account of American civic republicanism and its eclipse by liberal neutrality.
Sandel traces a formative republic tradition in American political thought centered on civic virtue and self-government, argues that the procedural liberal republic that replaced it impoverishes civic life, and calls for a revival of republican politics that takes seriously the moral formation of citizens.
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