Civility : manners, morals, and the etiquette of democracy /
Stephen L. Carter.
- 1st edition
- New York : Basic Books, c1998.
- xiv, 338 p. ; 21 cm.
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