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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... become a soldier. Plato considered democracy the second-worst regime, better only than tyranny, and Kronman reminds us that Plato understood democracy to be not just a politi- cal system but a disposition of character, a shape of the ...
... become a part of us , and we learn to love them — indeed , learn to love through them - first of all because they are ours , binding on us as part of an inheritance . Burke believed that only such a system of manners could elevate ...
... become a shackle on democracy . Scott has a good deal more than this to say about the bewitching quality of " scientific " or quantitative substitutes for qualitative judgments , but this democratic paradox is at the core of his ...
... become the Rome of the modern age because , like its imperial predecessor , it need not impose itself on the world ; instead , the world would pour itself on America . As Steitz points out in passing , it is impossible to imagine the ...
... become a form of power over other human beings. Gelernter adds to this that the more sophisticated our technology becomes, the more obscure our lives may grow, the more of what we inhabit we may be unable to understand. Stuffing ballot ...
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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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