The Politics of Hope

By Jonathan Sacks, Baron Sacks

Categories: Politics & Social Sciences, Religion & Spirituality

In The Politics of Hope (1997), Rabbi Jonathan Sacks argues that the moral bonds of family, community and civil society are the foundations of a free and hopeful politics. Sacks examines what liberal societies lost as individualism weakened those bonds, drawing on political philosophy, economics and religious thought. He contends that neither the market nor the state can create the trust and responsibility a society needs, and that renewing them depends on institutions between the individual and government.