Politics of Moralizing

Michael Shapiro is Professor of Political Science at the University of Hawaii. Jane Bennett is Professor of Political Science at Goucher College.

• Introduction, Jane Bennett and Michael J. Shapiro,The Moraline Drift, Jane Bennett,Generating a Virtuous Circle: Democratic Identity, Moralism, and the Languages of Political Responsibility, Alan Keenan,Political not Patriotic: Democracy, Civic space, and the American Memorial/Monument Complex, Steven Johnston,Autobiography and Cultivating the Arts of the Female Self, Ann Curthoys,The Tragedy of the Ethical Commons: Demoralizing Environmentalism, William Chaloupka,Out for a Walk, Helen Liggett,Just the facts, Please: Why Civil Society Does Not Need Moral Truths, Jill Locke,The challenge of Polytheism: Moses, Spinoza and Freud, John Docker,Affirming the Political: Tragic Affirmations vs. Gothic Displacements, Michael J. Shapiro,Contributors