Individualism and Public Life

Ralph Ketcham is Maxwell Professor Emeritus of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University.

• Paradoxes, 1945-85 Of Allied victory and the American centuryOf suburbia and the American way of lifeOf educationOf affluenceOf pluralistic politicsOf world powerOf therapy and humanistic psychologyOf America as a civilizationIndividualism in Western cultureGreek social individualismJudeo-Christian autonomous individualismA tension in citizenshipThe Renaissance, the Reformation, and puritanismThe commercial spiritScience and empiricismRomanticism and DarwinJohn Stuart Mill and nineteenth-century liberalismAmbiguous legacy for twentieth-century AmericaEast Asian counterpoint: the shadow of ConfuciusThe divergence of West and EastA morality of relationshipEastern and Western ideas of selfEastern and Western ideas of the stateThe Japanese encounter with the WestSociety and psyche in modern JapanThe public, the private, and democracy in East and WestPublic responsibility, order, and law in East AsiaA different democracy in JapanIndividualism and the public interest in the 1980sIndividualism re-reconsideredEducation for citizenship?Public-spirited and laissez-faire utopianismA jeffersonian model of citizenshipIndividualism, pluralism, and the leader as brokerLeadership and ideal rightConflict of interest politicsDecision-making and human natureThe whole: more than the sum of the parts?Deciding on a law of the seaA politics of the public interest