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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... 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 soul. Since Plato, democracy's many critics have sounded the same themes ...
... better able to see democracy's less apocalyptic dangers . Tocqueville's demo- cratic man , like Plato's , was not so much brutish as fatuous . The French lawyer and aristocrat looked at democracy with an air of mourning for what it ...
... better than any part of it . Both Whitman and Lincoln , as Bromwich presents them , wrestled constantly with the question of how to “ feel ” one's fellow citizens without being either ab- sorbed or repulsed by them . And Lincoln ...
... better than yours or mine ? Because the democratic answer is " Nothing , " a political imperative arises : to create ways of making these decisions that replace subjective judg- ment with impersonal , objective , and scientific ...
... better when we remember that we are not perfect. Cynthia Farrar's essay is in some ways a more concrete reflection on the same themes. In the course of the Yale Tercentennial DeVane Lectures that became these essays, she led a weekly ...
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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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