Cultivating Citizens Soulcraft and

In Cultivating Citizens Dwight Allman and Michael Beaty bring together some of America's leading social and political thinkers to address the question of civic vitality in contemporary American society. The resulting volume is a serious reflection on the history of civil society and a rich and rewarding conversation about the future American civic order.

Acknowledgments

vii

Introduction: Citizenship and Soulcraft in Contemporary America

ix

Dwight D. Allman

Part I: Cultivating Citizens as a Historical Problem

Cicero, Citizenship, and the Epicurean Temptation

3

(26)

Walter Nicgorski

Soulcraft, Citizenship, and Churchcraft: The View from Hippo

29

(14)

John von Heyking

From Moral Virtue to Material Benefit: Dominium and Citizenship in Late Medieval Europe

43

(18)

Cary J. Nederman

Lockean Liberalism and the Cultivation of Citizens

61

(12)

Nathan Tarcov

Part II: Cultivating Citizens as a Contemporary Problem

Who Are We? Taking Stock of the Culture

73

(18)

Jean Bethke Elshtain

Higher Education and the Cultivation of Citizenship

91

(12)

Alexander W. Astin

Citizenship, Faith, and Christian Higher Education

103

(18)

Michael D. Beaty

Have Americans Lost Their Virtue?

121

(18)

Alan Wolfe

Liberalism, Consumerism, and Citizenship

139

(12)

Michael J. Sandel

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Cultivating Citizens Soulcraft and Citizenship in Contemporary America

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