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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... churches , the whole social order in which the " super - added ideas " of tradition were preserved and re- produced . By wrecking the home in which humane customs lived , democracy turned loose individuals to be merely human , untutored ...
... church and state . Contemporary Americans are accustomed to think of this as a constitutionally enshrined principle , one of the axioms of a liberal and democratic way of life . Carter invites us instead to view it as a historically ...
... church and state as a one- sided battle , in which self - certain zealots teem outside the walls of the state , trying to break in and impose their creeds on the rest of us . Carter proposes a different view : from the beginning of ...
... Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints . From their settlement in the Utah territory , the Mormons announced in 1852 that divine instruction had led them to take up polygamy . Their revelation sparked a forty - year campaign by ...
... Church . The longevity of Lieber's line of argument against the Mormons can be seen in David Frum's editorial of January 2000. Without acknowledging it , Frum was charting a lineage of ideas descending from Montesquieu when he as ...
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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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