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Dedication
for Sue
diverging lives, converging anxieties
Contents
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Part One: Crisis
  
1: The New Anxieties
Part Two: Restoring Ethics
  
2: The Foundations of Morality: From the Selfish Gene to the Ethical Group
  
3: The Ethical State
  
4: The Ethical Firm
  
5: The Ethical Family
  
6: The Ethical World
Part Three: Restoring the Inclusive Society
  
7: The Geographic Divide: Booming Metropolis, Broken Cities
  
8: The Class Divide: Having it All, Falling Apart
  
9: The Global Divide: Winners, and the Left Behind
Part Four: Restoring Inclusive Politics
10: Breaking the Extremes
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Notes
Index
Copyright
About the Publisher
Part One
Crisis
1
The New Anxieties
PASSION AND PRAGMATISM
Deep rifts are tearing apart the fabric of our societies. They are bringing new anxieties and new anger to our people, and new passions to our politics. The social bases of these anxieties are geographic, educational and moral. It is the regions rebelling against the metropolis; northern England versus London; the heartlands versus the coasts. It is the less educated rebelling against the more educated. It is the struggling workers rebelling against the ‘scroungers’ and ‘rent-seekers’. The less-educated, toiling provincial has replaced the working class as the revolutionary force in society: the sans culottes
replaced by the sans cool
. So, what are these people angry about?
Place has become a dimension of the new grievances; after a long period during which geographic economic inequalities narrowed, recently they have been widening rapidly. Across North America, Europe and Japan, metropolitan areas are surging ahead of the rest of the nation. Not only are they becoming much richer than the provinces, socially they are becoming detached and no longer representative of the nation of which they are often the capital.
But even within the dynamic metropolis, these extraordinary economic gains are heavily skewed. The newly successful are neither capitalists nor ordinary workers: they are the well educated with new skills. They have forged themselves into a new class, meeting at university and developing a new shared identity in which esteem comes from skill. They have even developed a distinctive morality, elevating characteristics such as minority ethnicity and sexual orientation into group identities as victims. On the basis of their distinctive concern
for victim groups, they claim moral superiority o ............

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