The Problem of Trust by Adam B Seligman
Analyzes trust as a fundamental issue of social relationships. This book asks whether trust - which critics identify as essential in creating a cohesive society - can continue to serve this role. It shows that trust is losing its unifying power because the individual, is being reduced to a sum of group identities and an abstract matrix of rules.
"Adam Seligman's impressively thoughtful book suggests that the logic of waning trust in the late modern period may be to return the human subject to a premodern condition"--John Gray, The Times Literary Supplement (London) "The Problem of Trust is a demanding, closely reasoned, scholarly work... It is well worth the time of patient, attentive readers."--Carl L. Bankston III, Commonweal "The historical and religious perspective that Mr. Seligman brings to the contemporary debate about trust and civil society would greatly deepen our understanding of the way these issues are playing out in American society today."--Francis Fukuyama, The Washington Times
Adam B. Seligman is Associate Professor in the Department of Religion and Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Economic Culture at Boston University. His previous books include The Idea of Civil Society (Princeton) and Innerworldly Individualism: Charismatic Community and Its Institutionalization.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780691050201 |
| ISBN 10 | 0691050201 |
| Title | The Problem of Trust |
| Author | Adam B Seligman |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Princeton University Press |
| Year published | 2000-03-05 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
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