Breaking the habits of the heart

The authors of Habits of the Heart believe that American individualism “may have grown cancerous—that it may be destroying those social integuments that Tocqueville saw as moderating its more destructive potentialities.” However, because they come to their research with an anti‐individualistic bias in place, the authors fail to acknowledge the role of either recent historical events or influences other than individualistic ideas in shaping American culture. An alternative explanation for the emergence of the isolated self and the incoherence of moral discourse in American life is presented. Both of these phenomena are viewed as temporary responses to a shift in American character

Character (mathematics · Culture of the United States · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Individualism · Political science · Sociology · Law · Philosophy · Political Theory and Influence · Psychology · Social Psychology

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• America's Quest for the Ideal Self

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