Front Porch Republic Books Localism in the mass age, hardcover/mark t. mitchell

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Description In the United States the conventional left/right distinction has become increasingly irrelevant, if not harmful.

The reigning political, cultural, and economic visions of both the Democrats and the Republicans have reached obvious dead ends.

Liberalism, with its hostility to any limits, is collapsing.

So-called Conservatism has abandoned all pretense of conserving anything at all.

Both dominant parties seem fundamentally incapable of offering coherent solutions for the problems that beset us.

In light of this intellectual, cultural, and political stalemate, there is a need for a new vision.

Localism in the Mass Age: A Front Porch Republic Manifesto assembles thirty-one essays by a variety of scholars and practitioners--associated with Front Porch Republic--seeking to articulate a new vision for a better future.

The writers are convinced that human apprehension of the true, the good, and the beautiful is best realized within a dense web of meaningful family, neighborhood, and community relationships.

These writers seek to advance human flourishing through the promotion of political decentralism, economic localism, and cultural regionalism.

In short, Front Porch Republic is dedicated to renewing American culture by fostering the ideals necessary for strong communities.

Why reorient our lives toward local communities, economies, farmlands and forests? Because that's where you can be a citizen rather than a consumer, where you can see a need and help to meet it, where kinfolk might gather not just to visit but to live, where flesh-and-blood neighbors can offer one another aid and companionship, where public officials must answer for their actions, where you can grow food when the trucks stop rolling, where sun and wind offer free energy, and where you can protect and restore a piece of Earth.

If anything in that list appeals to you, then you'll be stirred by this book--a bold reimagining of our lives and our places.

--Scott Russell Sanders, author of Stay.