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by William F. May; Contribution by William F. May; Contribution by William F. May

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Since the end of World War II, runaway fears of Soviet imperialism, global terrorism, and anarchy have tended to drive American foreign policy toward an imperial agenda. At the same time, uncurbed appetites have wasted the environment and driven the country's market economy into the ditch. How can we best sustain our identity as a people and resist the distortions of our current anxieties and appetites?

Ethicist William F. May draws on America's religious and political history and examines two concepts at play in the founding of the country--contractual and covenantal. He contends that the biblical idea of a covenant offers a more promising way than the language of contract, grounded in self-interest alone, to contain our runaway anxieties and appetites. A covenantal sensibility affirms, "We the people (not simply, We the individuals, or We the interest groups) of the United States." It presupposes a history of mutual giving and receiving and of bearing with one another that undergirds all the traffic in buying and selling, arguing and negotiating, that obtain in the rough terrain of politics. May closes with an account of the covenantal agenda ahead, and concludes with the vexing issue of immigrants and undocumented workers that has singularly tested the covenant of this immigrant nation.

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  • Title Testing the National Covenant: Fears and Appetites in American Politics
  • Author William F. May; Contribution by William F. May; Contribution by William F. May
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition [ Edition: first
  • Pages 160
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Georgetown University Press
  • Publication date 2011-07
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9781589017658 / 158901765X
  • Weight 0.84 lbs (0.38 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.8 x 5.86 x 0.76 in (22.35 x 14.88 x 1.93 cm)
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Political
  • Category Philosophy
  • Library of Congress subjects Common good, Public interest - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2010040836
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306.209

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  • Choice, 04/01/2012, Page 0
  • Reference and Research Bk News, 12/01/2011, Page 109

About the author

William F. May is a senior fellow at the Institute of Practical Ethics and Public Life at the University of Virginia. He received his PhD from Yale and taught for many years at Southern Methodist University, where he was the founding director of the Cary M. Maguire Center for Ethics and Public Responsibility. A former president of the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Christian Ethics, he has written several books on medical and political ethics.

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