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Indiana University Press is pleased to announce the recent publication of:

JUST LOVE
Transforming Civic Virtue
Ann Mongoven

"Mongoven's proposal . . . succeeds in making the work of 'ordinary moral heroes' . . . recognizable as important contributors to civic virtue." —Lucinda Peach, American University

Once upon a time, civic virtue described an ethic of political involvement for all citizens. As American democracy evolved, however, the public and private spheres separated. The latter became domesticated and disengaged from public life by an ideology based on gender and a "disinterested love" of neighbor. Private passion was to be isolated from public reason, private love from public justice. But it need not be so. Drawing on examples of ordinary heroes, Ann Mongoven argues for a transformed civic virtue that articulates "just love": passionate care for fellow citizens as such. By connecting theory to practice, Mongoven dramatizes the challenges raised through tangible political examples and lets ordinary heroes suggest the path toward civic renewal.

http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/catalog/product_info.php?isbn=978-0-253-22090-5

438 pp., 5 figures
cloth 978-0-253-35325-2 $65.00
paper 978-0-253-22090-5 $24.95

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Dr. Andrea Veltman 
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Department of Philosophy & Religion 
MSC 8006
James Madison University 
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