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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... century the private values of comfort and security have been the ultimate bases of American political identity . In World War II , efforts to rally soldiers did not concentrate on the public principles of liberty and democracy ; instead ...
... century. Follow- ing Adam Smith, he points out that markets both presuppose and help to create ''natural liberty''—to move from place to place, to leave bad jobs or hopeless situations, and to enter into agreements with anyone who is ...
... century might have gone very differently, and that it went our way is not a reason for confidence that the next century will do the same. Human affairs are full of contingency, happenstance, and small incidents with huge consequences ...
... centuries are the product of these difficulties ( for example , the question of whether the laws of nature were fixed in God's mind before He created the world or were brought into being as part of that creation itself ) . But however ...
... centuries later, this still remains to be done. It remains a task before us. And though there is nothing in Plato's Republic, the wisest and most beautiful book we possess, that makes its distance from us as clear as Socrates' violent ...
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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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