Benjamin Gregg is Associate Professor of Government at The University of Texas at Austin and the author of Thick Moralities, Thin Politics: Social Integration Across Communities of Belief.

Acknowledgments

Introduction

I: THE PROBLEM: INDETERMINATE NORMS

1. Indeterminacy in Social and Political Norms

II: THE SOLUTION: BASIC COMPONENTS

2. Coping with Indeterminacy through Proceduralism

3. Coping with Indeterminacy through Pragmatism

III: THE SOLUTION: LOCALISM WITHOUT PAROCHIALISM

4. Enlightened Localism in Social Critique

5. Enlightened Localism in Public Policy

6. Enlightened Localism in Law and Morality

Coda: Social Cooperation in the Absence of Political Unity

Notes

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