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04263aam a2200529 i 4500 001 ABC20568A80111E7B9D4614397128E48 003 SILO 005 20171003010225 008 151215s2016 nju b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2015039738 020 $a 0691169438 020 $a 9780691169439 035 $a (OCoLC)933596236 040 $a DLC $e rda $b eng $c DLC $d YDX $d OCLCF $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d CDX $d SOS $d CHVBK $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a JK1759 $b .R89 2016 082 00 $a 307.3/3620973 $2 23 084 $a POL010000 $a PHI005000 $a POL003000 $a POL010000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Rosenblum, Nancy L. $q (Nancy Lipton), $d 1947- $e author. 245 10 $a Good neighbors : $b the democracy of everyday life in America / $c Nancy L. Rosenblum. 264 1 $a Princeton, New Jersey : $b Princeton University Press, $c [2016] 300 $a 301 pages ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a ""Love thy neighbor" is an impossible exhortation. Good neighbors greet us on the street and do small favors, but neighbors also startle us with sounds at night and unleash their demons on us, they monitor and reproach us, and betray us to authorities. 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. In Good Neighbors, Nancy Rosenblum explores how encounters among neighbors 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. During disasters, like Hurricane Katrina, the democracy of everyday life is a resource for neighbors who improvise rescue and care. Degraded, this framework can give way to betrayal by neighbors, as faced by the Japanese Americans interned during World War II, or to terrible violence such as the lynching of African Americans. Under extreme conditions the barest act of neighborliness is a bulwark against total ethical breakdown. The elements of the democracy of everyday life--reciprocity, speaking out, and "live and let live"--Comprise a democratic ideal not reducible to public principles of justice or civic virtue, but it is no less important. The democracy of everyday life, Rosenblum argues, is the deep substrate of democracy in America and can be its saving remnant."-- $c Provided by publisher. 505 0 $a Introduction: Good neighbor nation -- Part I. The lay of the land. -- 1. Who is my neighbor? -- 2. Narrative threads : settlers, immigrants, and suburban "grotesques" -- Part II. The democracy of everyday life. -- 3. Reciprocity among "decent folk" -- 4. Taking offense, speaking out -- 5. What anyone would do, here -- 6. Live and let live -- Part III. Holding our lives in their hands. -- 7. Betrayal -- 8. Killing -- 9. Disasters -- Part IV. Minding our own business. -- 10. Thoreau's neighbors -- Conclusion: Political theory and the democracy of everyday life in America. 650 0 $a Civil society $z United States. 650 0 $a Democracy $x Social aspects $z United States. 650 0 $a Neighborliness $z United States. 650 7 $a PHILOSOPHY $x Political. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a PHILOSOPHY $x Ethics & Moral Philosophy. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a POLITICAL SCIENCE $x Civics & Citizenship. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a POLITICAL SCIENCE $x History & Theory. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Civil society. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00862876 650 7 $a Democracy $x Social aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00890110 650 7 $a Neighborliness. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01035631 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 650 7 $a Nachbarschaftliches GemeinschaftsverhÌÆ°altnis. $0 (DE-588)4191995-6 $2 gnd 650 7 $a Zivilgesellschaft. $0 (DE-588)7668631-0 $2 gnd 650 7 $a Demokratie. $0 (DE-588)4011413-2 $2 gnd 651 7 $a USA. $0 (DE-588)4078704-7 $2 gnd 941 $a 3 952 $l PQAX094 $d 20231214053418.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191214014030.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20180104061515.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=ABC20568A80111E7B9D4614397128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search