Good Neighbors

Good Neighbors PDF Author: Nancy L. Rosenblum
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691180768
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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Book Description
The moral principles prescribed for friendship, civil society, and democratic public life apply imperfectly to life around home, where we interact day to day without the formal institutions, rules of conduct, and means of enforcement that guide us in other settings. This work explores how encounters among neighbours create a democracy of everyday life, which has been with us since the beginning of American history and is expressed in settler, immigrant, and suburban narratives and in novels, poetry, and popular culture.