The respect for religious difference has formed the bedrock of our nation and made equality possible. Yet today we are told that moral values”code for a government shaped by religious concernsmust be the keystone of our social compact.
A rich and compelling chronicle of an essential idea, Liberty of Conscience tells the story of America’s great tradition of religious freedom. Philosopher Martha Nussbaum’s ambitious book is both a work of history and a pointed rejoinder to conservative efforts to break down barriers between church and state.

Liberty of Conscience: In Defense of America's Tradition of Religious Equality

History

Nussbaum, Martha

World

Basic Books

In one of the great triumphs of the colonial and Revolutionary periods, the founders of the future United States overcame religious intolerance in favor of a constitutional order dedicated to fair treatment for people's deeply held conscientious beliefs. It granted equal liberty of conscience to all and took a firm stand against religious establishment. This respect for religious difference, acclaimed scholar Martha Nussbaum writes, formed our democracy. Yet today there are signs that this legacy is misunderstood. The prominence of a particular type of Christianity in our public life suggests the unequal worth of citizens who hold different religious beliefs, or no beliefs. Other people, meanwhile, seek to curtail the influence of religion in public life in a way that is itself unbalanced and unfair. Such partisan efforts, Nussbaum argues, violate the spirit of our Constitution. Liberty of Conscience is a historical and conceptual study of the American tradition of religious freedom. Weaving together political history, philosophical ideas, and key constitutional cases, this is a rich chronicle of an ideal of equality that has always been central to our history but is now in serious danger.

After the terrorist attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center, American flags appeared everywhere. Is patriotism a good response at a time of national crisis? What does it mean for us to think of ourselves as a nation first? With our connections to the world growing stronger and more vital than ever, Martha C. Nussbaum argues that we should distrust conventional patriotism as parochial and instead see ourselves first of all as "citizens of the world." Sixteen prominent writers and thinkers respond, including Benjamin R. Barber, Sissela Bok, Nathan Glazer, Robert Pinsky, Elaine Scarry, Amartya Sen, and Michael Walzer. NEW DEMOCRACY FORUM A series of short paperback originals exploring creative solutions to our most urgent national concerns. The series editors (for Boston Review), Joshua Cohen and Joel Rogers, aim to foster politically engaged, intellectually honest, and morally serious debate about fundamental issues-both on and off the agenda of conventional politics.

For Love of Country?

Joshua Cohen

Americas

Beacon Press

Une crise silencieuse frappe aujourd'hui les dmocraties du monde. L'ducation se plie aux exigences du march de l'emploi, de la rentabilit et de la performance, dlaissant la littrature, l'histoire, la philosophie et les arts : les humanits. Pour Martha Nussbaum, l'une des plus grandes philosophes amricaines, celles-ci ne sont ni un vestige du pass ni un supplment d'me pour happy few. Dans ce manifeste original et argument, Martha Nussbaum montre comment les humanits nous font accder la culture des motions, l'"imagination narrative". C'est grce l'empathie que nous sommes capables de nous mettre la place d'autrui, de nous identifier au "faible" au lieu de le stigmatiser, de dvelopper de la compassion et du respect en lieu et place de l'agressivit et de la peur qui naissent invitablement de la vulnrabilit, et de dfendre l'intrt commun. Ce n'est pas coup de dbats d'ides abstraites que s'imposeront l'galit et la libert... C'est en formant, par le biais des "motions dmocratiques", le citoyen du XXIe sicle.

Les Émotions démocratiques

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