Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life

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Perhaps no work which describes the American people is so comprehensive as Toqueville's Democracy in America. Bellah et. al. rely heavily upon Toqueville in Habits of the Heart in exploring how the mores of the American people have helped to shape national character. More particularly, they are interested in how Americans attempt “to preserve or create a morally coherent life” (p. 275). But unlike Toqueville for whom the issue of equality was central, Bellah and his co-authors focus their attention on American individualism which “may be destroying those social integuments that Toqueville saw as moderating its more destructive potentialities” (p. viii).

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