Civility : manners, morals, and the etiquette of democracy / Stephen L. Carter.

Contents;

I. The collapse of the three-legged stool
1. Barbarians running late
2. Do manners matter?
3. The death of the golden age
4. Welcoming the stranger
5. The embarrassment of free will
6. Sacrifice and neighbor-love

II. Incivility's instruments
7. The demon on the other side
8. The varieties of (not) listening
9. Fighting words
10. Market language and the linguistics of incivility
11. Some technologies of incivility
12. Law, tolerance, and civility's illusions

III. Civilizing the twenty-first century
13. Where civility begins
14. Uncivil religion
15. Civility and the challenge of Christendom
16. The etiquette of democracy
17. Coda: The civility of silence

Includes bibliographical references and index.