Democratic Vistas: Reflections on the Life of American DemocracyJedediah Purdy, Anthony T. Kronman, Cynthia Farrar Yale University Press, 1 окт. 2008 г. - Всего страниц: 288 In this thought-provoking collection, leading scholars explore democracy in the United States from a sweeping variety of perspectives. A dozen contributors consider the nature and prospects of democracy as it relates to the American experience—free markets, religion, family life, the Cold War, higher education, and more. These probing essays bring American democracy into fresh focus, complete with its idealism, its moral greatness, its disappointments, and its contradictions. Based on DeVane lectures delivered at Yale University, these writings examine large themes and ask important questions: Why do democratic societies, and the United States in particular, tolerate profound economic inequality? Has the United States ever been truly democratic? How has democratic aspiration influenced the development of practices as diverse as education, religious worship, and family life? With deep insights and lively discussion, the authors expand our understanding of what democracy has meant in the past, how it functions now, and what its course may be in the future. |
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... arguments deserve equal status in public life with other moral positions , so long as they are not made in a spirit of bad faith , violence , or other violations of the standard of civility . Carter's real target , though , is any view ...
... argument . He takes the side of a rather radical conception of democracy , preferring to bring these hidden value judgments into the open even at poten- tial risk to the ramshackle compromises that Cott , Carter , and Brodhead ex- plore ...
... history—and specifically how Americans are inclined to think of these themes. Gaddis's argument is that, although American-style democracy and markets are triumphant in much of the world, we should not take false reassurance Introduction ...
... argument, but they may also come to new understandings of those rules as they argue together. Democracy is not a vast opinion poll, nor is it a fixed and eternal principle for making decisions: it is an activity, to which people sub ...
... argument is not really a cultural one . It has to do with the effects of large - scale institutional decisions , which can either inhibit or foster a culture of small - scale initiative in ideas and research . If we have the research ...
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4 Can Religion Tolerate Democracy? And Vice Versa? | 67 |
5 Taking Democracy to School | 99 |
Audits Quantification and the Obfuscation of Politics | 115 |
The Democracy as Social Movement | 138 |
9 Democracy and Distribution | 173 |
10 Democracy and Foreign Policy | 205 |
11 Dinner with Democracy | 222 |
12 American Democracy and the Origins of the Biomedical Revolution | 236 |
13 Computers and Democracy | 258 |
List of Contributors | 273 |
Index | 275 |
8 Democracy and the Market | 154 |
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