Whose Keeper?: Social Science and Moral Obligation

by Alan Wolfe

Book Overview

Whose Keeper? is a profound and creative treatise on modernity and its challenge to social science. Alan Wolfe argues that modern liberal democracies, such as the United States and Scandinavia, have broken with traditional sources of mortality and instead have relied upon economic and political frameworks to define their obligations to one another. Wolfe calls for reinvigorating a sense of community and thus a sense of obligation to the larger...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520356470
• ISBN13: 9780520356474
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 390 Pages
• Weight: 1.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"