Better Together: Report of the Saguaro Seminar on Civic Engagement in America.(Review)
American Prospect, The, September, 2001 by MAGILL, R. JAY JR.
Better Together: Report of the Saguaro Seminar on Civic Engagement in America John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 108 pages MORE THAN 100 YEARS ago, Friedrich Nietzsche observed the gradual turning inward of the German population, away from an open neighborliness.
He noted in Human, All Too Human that the clearest sign of this increasing social alienation was that people say "ironic things to the other, but neither of the two feel the other's irony." This sort of keen insight into daily life can reveal larger changes in the culture. Though ...
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