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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... called on to solve . Since Thomas Jefferson envisioned a public school system as a way of cultivating civic virtue and meritocracy , and Horace Mann proposed common schools as a way to impart civic unity in an age of immigration and ...
... . They are not program- matic or didactic, but they are for our democracy what Robert Frost once called on poetry to be: a momentary stay against confusion. The Democratic Soul ANTHONY T. KRONMAN I The first great Introduction 15.
... called by different names. Some philosophers call it autonomy, and others authenticity, but what- ever name we give it, it is an essential feature of the concept of individuality to which we assign such prestige. We all know , of course ...
... being ? Socrates ' famous answer , of course , is that true justice can be realized on earth only if " philosophers rule as kings or those now called kings and chiefs genuinely and adequately philosophize The Democratic Soul 23.
... called kings and chiefs genuinely and adequately philosophize , ” only if " political power and philosophy coincide . ” This “ paradoxical ” reply , as Socrates calls it , immediately raises a further question . How are we to know who ...
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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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