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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... citizen who follows his impulses from a feast to the gym and back again, dabbles now in music and now in philosophy, and cannot decide whether he most admires merchants or wishes to become a soldier. Plato considered democracy the ...
... citizens , they are near enough , but he does not notice them . He touches them but feels nothing . " There is no mistaking the echo of Plato here . Nor , more pertinently , is there any mistaking these anxieties in Whitman's ...
... citizens , as much in John Adams's time as in today's debates over family values and welfare policy . At the same time , activists have always been eager to extend democratic princi- ples of freedom and equality to the family . The ...
... citizens come to- gether, they bring their existing interests and attitudes, but they also change each other in the course of deliberating together; they obey the rules of civility and argument, but they may also come to new ...
... citizens with just a few years of education to know classical history, so that they would recognize the signs of encroaching tyranny and be able to defend their liberty. Even if we do not take Rome as our model of liberty and tyranny ...
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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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