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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... believe that , we must dispense with every old hierarchy of value : contemplation over action , sober piety over ecstatic enthusiasm , discipline over pleasure , or Latin over the vulgate . Any such hierarchy would rob us of our total ...
... believe it has once more made schools into bas- tions of inequity , now moving under the name of merit . As long as we take “ democracy ” to mean many things , some of them mutually contradictory , we are likely to create paradoxes like ...
... believe they are in the top 1 percent of personal income, while another 20 percent believe they will end up there. Moreover, Americans, including many of the poor, believe that the market system is fair and that the inequality it ...
... believe, to reject, the central premise on which its entire argument is based. I have in mind the harsh assessment that Socrates and his companions offer of democratic government and of the way of life associated with it. Most of the ...
... believe , passionately , in the very things that define the democratic way of life , in freedom and equality ? Are we not devoted to the idea that each of us must be free to choose the life that seems to him or her the best ? Are we not ...
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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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