Whose Keeper?: Social Science and Moral Obligation

by Alan Wolfe

Book Overview

This book is a profound and creative treatise on modernity and its challenge to social science. Alan Wolfe argues that modern liberal democracies, such as the U.S. and Scandinavia, have broken with traditional sources of morality 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 an sense of obligation to the larger society.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520065514
• ISBN13: 9780520065512
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 371 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.