Background
Seligman, Adam Baruch was born on January 18, 1954 in Rutland, Vermont, United States. Son of Monroe Daniel and Naomi Seligman.
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The problem of trust in social relationships was central to the emergence of the modern form of civil society and much discussed by social and political philosophers of the early modern period. Over the past few years, in response to the profound changes associated with postmodernity, trust has returned to the attention of political scientists, sociologists, economists, and public policy analysts. In this sequel to his widely admired book, The Idea of Civil Society, Adam Seligman analyzes trust as a fundamental issue of our present social relationships. Setting his discussion in historical and intellectual context, Seligman asks whether trust--which many contemporary critics, from Robert Putnam through Francis Fukuyama, identify as essential in creating a cohesive society--can continue to serve this vital role. Seligman traverses a wide range of examples, from the minutiae of everyday manners to central problems of political and economic life, showing throughout how civility and trust are being displaced in contemporary life by new "external' system constraints inimical to the development of trust. Disturbingly, Seligman shows that trust is losing its unifying power precisely because the individual, long assumed to be the ultimate repository of rights and values, is being reduced to a sum of group identities and an abstract matrix of rules. The irony for Seligman is that, in becoming postmodern, we seem to be moving backward to a premodern condition in which group sanctions rather than trust are the basis of group life.
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Seligman examines the notion of the civil society. He argues that the combination of individal rights and interests with a social and political system based on a shared morality found its clearest concrete expression in 18th-century America. Since then, successive societies and social experiments have sought in vain to approximate to the society in which individual interests and the public good are identical. The problems of modern mass democracies which require intense centralization to be functional, and the growth of socialism and the notion of unearned entitlements have served to undermine the foundations of the civil society.
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Seligman, Adam Baruch was born on January 18, 1954 in Rutland, Vermont, United States. Son of Monroe Daniel and Naomi Seligman.
Bachelor, State University of New York, New York City, 1977. Master of Arts, University Birmingham, 1980. Doctor of Philosophy, Hebrew University Jerusalem, 1988.
Assistant professor University Colorado, Boulder, 1993-1995, associate professor, 1995-1996. Associate professor religion Boston University, since 1996.
( The problem of trust in social relationships was centra...)
(Seligman examines the notion of the civil society. He arg...)
Married Rahel Regina Wasserfall, June 20, 1992. Children: Sarah Ana, Amiya Esther.